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A Tantalizing Sisyphean Task: Greek Mythology in Popular Culture. Bibliography: “Greek Sinners in the Modern World” http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Clas230/MythDocuments/greek_sinners_in_the_modern_world.htm. Mythological Influence on. Greek Mythology in Popular Culture.
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A Tantalizing Sisyphean Task:Greek Mythology in Popular Culture Bibliography: “Greek Sinners in the Modern World” http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Clas230/MythDocuments/greek_sinners_in_the_modern_world.htm
SISYPHUS TANTALUS IXION
House f Tantalus Tantalus: Hyginus: #82-88; Apollodorus E.2.1 John Barton’s epic play cycle Denver, 2000
Tantalus How is the story in the painting at right different from the story in the relief above? Detail from a Italian vase Fourth-century B.C.
“Tantalus Cup” How could the philosophy Pythagoras use this cup to teach moderation? Why was it called a “Tantalus Cup”?
Sisyphus in Art Titian. 1549 El Prado Madrid Franz von Stuck 1863-1928
Tantalus Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
Strip for Me. Sept. 2000. Scottish cartoonist Douglas Noble Honore Daumier French Realist Illustrator, 1808-1879 What does Noble wrap around Tantalus’ neck? Eric Shanower Age of Bronze Special 1999
Tantalus Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
Zoology Sisyphus spinipes ↕ Chlorocebus tantalus Tantalus aethiopicus
Tantalus Mountain Range TheTantalus Range is a small but spectacular sub-range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia, Canada.
Tantalum • Symbol: Ta • Atomic Number: 73
Why is this object called a tantalus? A three bottle rack style tantalus.
Boats HMS Tantalus USS Tantalus
Pop Music Sills, Stephen. "Myth of Sisyphus." In Stills (1975) Are you troubledFeelin' badAnd no one seems to careGot the myth of SisyphusFallin' on you like a rolling stone Arena. “Tantalus.” In Pepper’s Ghost (2005) Standing in water, but dying of thirstThis is my thanks and this is my curseTry as I might, the fruit on the treesAll remain beyond reach, beyond wishes or pleading forOne last chanceWaiting for time to pass me byWaiting for freedom, waiting to dieWhere can I go, in a world without hope?There is never a place for a soul that has broken soTrust in no one - Trust in no one
Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
A Tantalizing Sisyphean Task Tom SienkewiczMonmouth Collegetoms@monm.edu Bibliography: “Greek Sinners in the Modern World” http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Clas230/MythDocuments/greek_sinners_in_the_modern_world.htm
