Sisyphus1.0003_Ribera

Sisyphus1.0003_Ribera

Wikipedia Commons
Las Furias (2014) at the Prado
ogcma Sisyphus1.0000_Reid
Classical Sources:
Homer, Od. 11.593-600
Aeschylus, Sisyphus Petrokylistes, fragment
Sophocles, Sisyphus(?), fragment
Euripides, Sisyphus (?), fragment
Alcaeus 38.5.10=fr. 110.5-10 ML p.360
Ovid Met. 4.460-68, 10.44, 13.26-33
Lucretius 3.995-1006
Apollodorus Libr. 1.9.3
Hyginus Fabulae 60, 201
Pausanias, 2.1.3, 2.5.1

Jusepe de Ribera, ca. 1590/91-1652, "Sisyphus," oil on canvas, ca. 1632, lost; copy on deposit in Prado, Madrid.

A man, representing Sisyphus, strains to push a boulder up a dark, barren hill.

Bibliography:
López Torrijos 1985, 400f., 442 no. 125
Spinosa 1978, no. 73a

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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