Sisyphus2.0002

Sisyphus2.0002_Gerberg

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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

Mort Gerberg, Sisyphus at the Gym, New Yorker cartoon 7/20/1998

A man pushes a large boulder up an incline in a gym full of people exercising on treadmills and stationary bikes

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Several treatments of the Sisyphus myth have appeared in the New Yorker'scartoons over the years, especially since this one. Click the Cartoonbank.com link and "search" for Sisyphus.

06/17/2002 by Weyant: Sisyphus on vacation
7/20/1998 by Mort Gerberg: Sisyphus at the gym
9/22/2008 Roz Chaz: practical Sisyphus
11/29/2010 by Weyant: Sisyphus in Autumn
07/06/2009 by Mort Gerberg: Sisyphus learns to bowl
05/02/2011 Lee Lorenz: Sisyphus is like the NY Mets
12/08/2008 by Charles Barsotti: Sisyphus might as well be working against "Bureaucratic Man"
11/11/2013 by Shannon Wheeler: Sisyphus' marriage brings certain resistance

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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