What is Myth? Who is Sisyphus? What is a Sisyphean Task?

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What is Myth? Who is Sisyphus? What is a Sisyphean Task? Why is the study of myth a Sisyphean Task? How is Star Wars a Myth? A Sisyphean Task? “So certain are you.  Always with you it cannot be done.  Hear you nothing that I say?”       – Yoda, from The Empire Strikes Back.

What is a Myth? Myth is: American Heritage Dictionary definition

Who is Sisyphus? What is a Sisyphean Task? Odyssey 11.593 Achelous Painter late 6th century BC

What did Sisphyus do to deserve this punishment? Apollodorus Note 147 Pausanias 2.5.1 Diodorus Siculus 6.6.3 Hyginus: #60 Apollodorus 1.9.3

A Poetic Sisyphean Task Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen (1903-1946) I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind, And did He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and immune To catechism by a mind too strewn With petty cares to slightly understand What awful brain compels His awful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Why is the study of myth a Sisyphean Task? Achelous Painter late 6th century BC But before we consider modern adaptations and uses of the myths of these sinners, a quick survey of some ancient visual treatments of these myths is in order. One early representation of Sisyphus is the one on the left, a detail from a vase by the Archelous Painter in which Persephone supervises as Sisyphus pushes his rock. A similar scene appears on the right in a detail from an Attic black-figure amphora. Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, ca. 530 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 1494)

Why is the study of myth a Sisyphean Task? On Myths and Sisyphean Tasks

Why is the study of myth a Sisyphean Task? Subject matter of myth Myth and History Universality Myths as Lies Myths as Truth Myth as Religion Myth, Ritual and Ceremony Myth and Media Myth and Geography

How is Star Wars a Myth? How is studying Star Wars a Sisyphean Task? Subject matter of myth Myth and History Universality Myths as Lies Myths as Truth Myth as Religion Myth, Ritual and Ceremony Myth and Media Myth and Geography