012: Can We Cheat Death? A Lesson from Sisyphus.

Teaching Mythology

It seems as though every culture or mythological system has death myths. The preoccupation with the afterlife is something that has transferred very quickly into our modern world. We see it with the never-ending pursuit of that youthful glow. In Ancient Greece, Sisyphus's obsession over not dying led him to trick Gods, force his wife to not bury him, and negotiating with the goddess Persephone. He was able to trick death two times, but the third time was his failure. As punishment, he is forced to roll an enchanted boulder up a hill for eternity. It is his Sisyphean task.
Join me as I give a summary of the myth of Sisyphus, talk about how I connected the myth to modern poetry, and question how I will greet death when he comes for me.
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Ancient Greece's Most Wanted Podcast Notes - to listen to with your students. It retells the myth of Sisyphus.
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