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Narrative : Greek Mythology Orpheus and Eurydice

Plot In English
Orpheus had been taught to play the lyre by Apollo, and such was his skill on the instrument, together with the sweetness of his singing voice, that he could charm wild animals and even cause trees to uproot themselves and follow in his steps. It is said that his father is god Apollo and Muse Calliope is his mother..
Orpheus fell in love with a nymph named Eurydice and blissful was their life together until one day she was pursued by a shepherd name Aristaeus who fell in love to Eurydice. In her headlong eagerness to escape to the woods, she stepped on a poisonous snake, was bitten and died instantly. How disconsolate Orpheus was finding his dead wife’s body and could not bear to live a day without her. Orpheus spend his days by playing his lyre and sing so full of sorrow that makes all the fairies and humans saddened by hearing it, the fairies then suggest him to find Eurydice in the Hades and showed the way to it through a cave. Orpheus went to the cave which lead to Hades. there his musical charms were so persuasive that the King of the Dead permitted Orpheus to take his sweetheart Eurydice home- on one condition.
This condition was so simple that it takes some explaining to account for Orpheus's failure to fulfill the condition. Perhaps he could not bear to keep his eyes off his beloved wife for a moment longer. However, he did the one thing he had been forbidden. He turned around and looked at Eurydice, while he is promised that Eurydice would follow him walk back home to their world, then because he looks back at her, he losts her forever. Orpheus tried to go back to the Hades and failed, he realized that a living creature could not visit Hades for the second time.
Orpheus swore he would never love another, and his faithfulness to Eurydice caused wild women of Thrace tearing him limb from limb in a fit of jealousy. They threw his head into a river, and it kept on singing all the way of the river.
It is said that his head and his lyre floated downriver to the island of Lesvos. There the Muses found them and gave Orpheus a proper burial ceremony. People believed that his grave emanated music, plaintive yet beautiful. His soul descended down to Hades where he was finally reunited with his beloved Eurydice
Plot berbahasa Indonesia
Orpheus telah diajarkan main kecapi oleh Apollo, dan keterampilannya pada instrumen, bersama-sama dengan suara manisnya saat bernyanyi, ia mampu mempersonakan hewan buas dan bahkan mampu membuat pepohonan mencabut diri mereka sendiri dan mengikuti jejak-nya Orpheus. Konon Dewa Apollo adalah ayahnya dan Muse Calliope adalah ibunya.

Orpheus jatuh cinta dengan seorang peri bernama Eurydice dan hidup mereka penuh akan kebahagiaan bersama sampai suatu hari Eurydice dikejar oleh seorang pengembala bernama Aristaeus yang jatuh cinta akan Eurydice. Eurydice dengan semangat akan ketakutan berlari kabur ke arah hutan, dia pun menginjak ular berbisa, digigit dan mati seketika. Betapa sedihnya Orpheus menemukan tubuh istrinya yang tidak bernyawa tersebut dan dia pun tidak kuat menghadapi sehari pun tanpa dirinya. Orpheus menghabiskan hari-harinya dengan bermain kecapi dan bernyanyi dengan alunan musik yang sangat penuh akan kesedihan sehingga membuat para peri dan manusia tersedih mendengarnya, para peri pun menyarankan ia untuk menemukan Eurydice kembali di Hades dan menunjukan jalan menuju kesitu melalui sebuah gua. Orpheus pun pergi ke gua yang menuju ke Hades (dunia orang mati). Kepesonaan musiknya Orpheus sangatah persuasif sehingga Raja Kematian di Hades mengizinkan Orpheus membawa pulang kekasihnya yaitu Eurydice - dengan satu syarat.

Syarat ini sangatlah sederhana sehingga dibutuhkan beberapa penjelasan untuk memperhitungkan kegagalan Orpheus dalam memenuhi persyaratan tersebut. Mungkin dia tidak tahan untuk mengalihkan matanya dari istrinya yang tercinta beberapa saat lagi. Bagaimana pun, dia melakukan satu hal yang telah dilarang. Dia berbalik dan menatap Eurydice, selagi ia dijanjikan bahwa Eurydice akan mengikutinya berjalan kembali pulang ke dunianya lalu karena ia melihat ke belakang ke Eurydice, dia pun kehilangan istrinya selamanya. Orpheus mencoba berkali-kali untuk kembali lagi ke Hades dan gagal, dia sadar bahwa mahluk yang hidup tidak bisa mengunjungi Hades untuk kedua kalinya.
Orpheus bersumpah dia tidak akan pernah mencintai orang lain, dan kesetiaannya terhadap Eurydice menyebabkan perempuan liar Thrace mencabik-cabik dirinya karena kecemburuan. Mereka melemparkan kepalanya ke sungai, dan kepalanya pun terus bernyanyi sepanjang aliran sungai.

Konon, kepala dan kecapinya mengalir ke sungai menuju kepulauan Lesvos. Disana Muse menemukannya dan memberikan Orpheus pemakaman yang seharusnya. Orang percaya bahwa makamnya memancarkan musik, sedih namun indah. Jiwanya pun turun ke Hades dimana dia akhirnya dipertemukan lagi dengan Eurydice tercintanya.

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