a tantalizing sisyphean task: 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. Mythological Influence on. Greek Mythology in Popular Culture. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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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
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SISYPHUSIXION
TANTALUS
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House f Tantalus
John Barton’s epic play cycleDenver, 2000
Tantalus: Hyginus: #82-88; Apollodorus E.2.1
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Tantalus
Detail from a Italian vase Fourth-century B.C.
How is the story in the painting at right different from the story in the relief above?
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“Tantalus Cup”
How could the philosophy Pythagoras use this cup to teach moderation?
Why was it called a “Tantalus Cup”?
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Sisyphus and Tantalus in the Literary World
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Sisyphus in Art
Titian. 1549 El Prado Madrid Franz von Stuck1863-1928
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Tantalus
Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
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Honore Daumier French Realist Illustrator, 1808-1879
Strip for Me. Sept. 2000.Scottish cartoonist
Douglas Noble
Eric Shanower Age of Bronze Special
1999
What does Noble wrap around Tantalus’ neck?
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Tantalus
Bernard Picart (1673-1733)
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Tantalus Interactivehttp://www.tantalus.com.au/
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Zoology
Chlorocebus tantalus Sisyphus spinipes ↕
Tantalus aethiopicus
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Tantalus Mountain Range
The Tantalus Range is a small but spectacular sub-range of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia, Canada.
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Tantalum
• Symbol: Ta
• Atomic Number: 73
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Commercial Products
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Why is this object called a tantalus?
A three bottle rack style tantalus.
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Boats
HMS Tantalus
USS Tantalus
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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 chance
Waiting 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 so
Trust in no one - Trust in no one
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
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Yet Do I Marvelby Countee Cullen
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,And did He stoop to quibble could tell whyThe little buried mole continues blind,Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die,Make plain the reason tortured TantalusIs baited by the fickle fruit, declareIf merely brute caprice dooms SisyphusTo struggle up a never-ending stair.Inscrutable His ways are, and immuneTo catechism by a mind too strewnWith petty cares to slightly understandWhat awful brain compels His awful hand.Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
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A Tantalizing Sisyphean Task Tom Sienkewicz
Monmouth [email protected]
Bibliography: “Greek Sinners in the Modern World”http://department.monm.edu/classics/Courses/Clas230/MythDocuments/greek_sinners_in_the_modern_world.htm