0796NOTOrpheusEurydice_Fuller

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episodes at WB.com
OGCMA s.v. "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Classical Sources:
Plato, Symposium, 179c-e
Diodorus Siculus, Bibl., 4.25.4, 81-82
Vergil, Georgics 4.315-558
Ovid Metamorphoses 10.1-85, 11.66
Apollodorus Libr. 1.3.2
Hyginus Poet. Astron. 2.7

Bryan Fuller, creator, Pushing Daisies, 2007=2008 comedy that ran on ABC. (imdb.com) Lee Pace as Ned, Anna Friel as Chuck.

Watch Season 2, Episode 1: "Bzzzzzzzzz!" on ovguide.com (aired on ABC 1 Oct 2008. If your bees died, how would you get them back? If you didn't know your narrative were based on the myth, could you make some of this up? If you were telling the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, wouldn't you eventually resort to Vergilian allusions? What if you didn't realize there was a connection?

"This forensic fairy-tale follows Ned the pie shop owner who can bring the dead back to life." WB.com blurb

Haney paper, 2010, was the first notice I took of Orphic allusions.

The cast of Pushing Daisies stands in front of The Pie Hole diner

Series Plot Summary: Ned makes pies like nobody else can. He has a magical touch that revives the dead. He once used it on his dead girlfriend, Charlotte Charles; and, now that she's revived, he can't ever touch her again. Season 2 opens with a story

Episode Plot Summary: ""Emerson is hired by Dusty Fitz, whose wife Kentucky died in a tragic bee-related incident. She was involved with another man who Dusty claims she was preparing to leave, and Dusty suspects murder. ..." ovguide.com

The way the Orphic allusions slip from grasp — subtle allusions to Vergil, to Hitchcock's usages of Cocteau, and so forth — is remarkable.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University and other contexts.
This resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
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