1009NOTSisyphus

OGCMA1009NOTSisyphus_Groening

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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

Matt Groening, creator. Futurama, episode "Calculon 2.0." TV Series. Curiosity Company: 2013.

In the Futurama episode "Calculon 2.o," the protagonists journey into Robot Hell to retrieve the soul of the deceased robot actor Calculon. While they are voyaging through Robot Hell, a robot can be seen walking on an incline treadmill while pushing a large rock. The treadmill further underscores the futility of the task, because there is no illusion of purpose. This Robot Sisyphus is intended to bring the myth into the 31st-century world in which the show is set.

Slide by CB.

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.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.