Great video! A small little point left out is that Sisyphus angered the gods even more because he scorned them when he rolled the boulder up the hill. He did it with joy and when the boulder rolled down the hill he would happily go and get it.
@sarah-jaynemcdonald25944 жыл бұрын
Wow, didn't know that bit. It gives a whole new perspective to me. Thank you.
@tortureddummies16723 жыл бұрын
Sisyphus is just working out brah,it’s not really a punishment for him. And fuk the mother fuking Gods!
@sagemagus1262 жыл бұрын
Of course Sisyphus was happy, this squat movement is named after Sisyphus, look at the size of his legs. Sisyphus still outsmarted the gods in the end
@ksy6177 Жыл бұрын
@@sagemagus126 they can accuse me of many a things but not skipping leg day - sisyphus
@sagemagus126 Жыл бұрын
@@ksy6177 Sisyphus is now what leg day means
@usamarayana52884 жыл бұрын
I love how good Skyrim’s background music goes with the tone of this video
@craigmassey29735 жыл бұрын
I've always loved the story of Sisyphus, you've got to see it from the rocks point of view
@Komplexitet4 жыл бұрын
Hmm can someone smart expand on this haha it would be interesting
@limmeh78814 жыл бұрын
@@Komplexitet the boulder is the source of sisyphus' suffering, never making it to the top of the mountain and being heavy to push anyway. there may be some pleasure in being the eternal thorn in the side of a god/king perhaps.
@robertkelly97724 жыл бұрын
Sisyphus still got the last laugh. After Zeus told Hephaestus to make the boulder for Sisyphus's punishment, Sisyphus slipped Hephestus an anvil, some tongs and a leather apron on the sly. Hephaestus then made the rock out of pumice.
@coconut19373 жыл бұрын
@@robertkelly9772 and sisyphus would then anger the gods more by rolling up it up the hill happily and pretending he was enjoying himself
@EzraBostic5 жыл бұрын
I just realized thats skyrim music in the background
@neonsailo79795 жыл бұрын
I was about to comment the same thing
@oscarabbas16445 жыл бұрын
Kind of ironic
@David-Starwarsfan5 жыл бұрын
EzraEB ikr
@Byt3me215 жыл бұрын
30 seconds in and I knew it was skyrim
@bulrawg_bot5 жыл бұрын
Lol noobs I knew within 2 seconds.
@abnormalee935 жыл бұрын
Alwayz being hungry, thirsty and in constant fear that life (a figurative boulder) is gonna come crashing down on me? I can definitely relate 😂
@kingartison5 жыл бұрын
Me from 15 up until yesterday ...I’m 24 lol
@superdarklink5 жыл бұрын
That's been my life for the past 9 years XD
@nonamebrand29744 жыл бұрын
Lmao. Yeah! Thats why myth is so useful for understanding our own life
@spyox22154 жыл бұрын
@Justin Gary same bruh sucks having major depression
@shutupimstilltalking3 ай бұрын
I watch this as I slow eat a churro. I have to eat it slowly or I'll choke, and I can assure he was not in fear of the Boulder.
@jackchase57275 жыл бұрын
Never heard the part about the Boulder with Tantalus!
@tkgwildfire53395 жыл бұрын
I could escape by that boulder.
@X21XXI5 жыл бұрын
I really admire Sisyphus' wit, and I don't believe for one second that he's actually pushing that boulder at all.
@Shiobana7535 жыл бұрын
I don't think the furies would let him catch a break. It is sort of their job to make sure people get punished for their crimes.
@jamesharrison6585 жыл бұрын
The guys a chancer, of course he's going to take on that boulder challenge. he kidnapped death itself to avoid dying convinced his wife to commit a grievous faux pas so he could escape again then by the sounds of it tried to outrun the messenger of the gods to escape them he's the mythological equivalent of the great escape
@sarahmorley77514 жыл бұрын
@@jamesharrison658 trying to outrun the fastest god is not likeley to workout well
@Tarteh4 жыл бұрын
Nah, I think this got Sisyphus good. If he can escape death, why not this? Because this is life. More specifically, his life - the hubristic one. To work for your own means and pleasures is pointless and empty. It's like a pride thing, perhaps. Stubborness. On another note, I like how he took the Gods on. Arrogance is a term that the best, in their respective areas, probably do adorn. Sisyphus was bold. He wants us to be... boulder.
@gleamingandshining9713 жыл бұрын
The furies would whip him so yeah, he still would lol
@januzzell86313 жыл бұрын
Interesting - I also heard that Sisyphus was told that if he could roll the boulder to the top, a door out of Tartarus would appear, which is why he keeps trying, endlessly
@kingbadmovie4 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of dante's purgatory where those who exhibited gluttony would have a similar punishment of fruit just out of reach. Dante definitely took inspiration from legends of older cultures and this definitely shows that.
@jeremygriffin6205 жыл бұрын
My favorite semi-recent use of Sisyphus' name was in Zefrank's Sad Cat Diaries, where the angst-ridden cat pines for a better situation than his peaceable house, and says of himself, "Like Sisyphus, I am bound to hell."
@princesskaylafaulkner5 жыл бұрын
I heard a version in which Sisyfus killed his guests, going against the rules of hospitality, rather than revealed a secret of Zues, and that's why Thanatos was sent.
@Autobotmatt4282 жыл бұрын
Its both. Killing his guest and violating the Greek rules of hospitality made him fall out of favor with Zeus. Then after revealing Zeus's secret of kidnapping a beautiful Nymph and tell her father a river god were she was for a price. After that Zeus then sent Thanatos.
@emberhydra3 жыл бұрын
Sisyphus was a hero who got punished for snitching on Zeus, but he also added a river to his kingdom
@pauldolan55755 жыл бұрын
One must imagine Sysiphus happy...
@thuringwethil935 жыл бұрын
This is quickly becoming one of my favorite channels, love the videos!
@WesternDanceGroup5 жыл бұрын
Yup...I can totally agree
@Richie_Godsil5 жыл бұрын
Albert Camus, the French absurdist philosopher, wrote a short essay (maybe 2 pages) on Myth of Sisyphus that has really stuck with me since high school. It's very insightful for those interested The TLDR is Camus imagines Sisyphus's last great insult to the gods is to not be tormented by his impossible task by enjoying the absurdity of the whole situation (I didn't do the essay justice, just read it! Lol)
@shivanithakur42405 жыл бұрын
2 pages lel
@mememaster97035 жыл бұрын
it isn't 2 pages dumbass, you read it in highschool as part of "pop philosophy" education and got a meme tier understanding of anything. Camus' "essay" is around 70 pages
@heartbust46245 жыл бұрын
@@mememaster9703 Lmfao
@WelfareChrist5 жыл бұрын
I live in Honolulu. There's a part of the city called Tantalus, its a bunch of amazing mansions on a mountainside. I'm now certain that the decision to name it Tantalus was deliberate. Its one of these places where you see it and you dream of living there while knowing that you never will.
@TheOis19843 жыл бұрын
being a freelance illustrator, i have tasted both Tantalus's and Sisypus's punisments, albeit not perpetual. Some clients keep postponing to pay me indefinitely with false promises, although I have finished their projects months ago. (Tantalus) Some other clients keep changing the briefs and send revision notes so that some projects keeps moving away from being completed. (Sisypus)
@mkfonacier44415 жыл бұрын
Didn't know Tantalus' punishment included a boulder too but good to know. Thanks, Myth!😋
@humanbeing14295 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my punishment as a kid when mom made me fetch pails of water from the pond just to spill it down the drain as I reached home. This repeated about 5 times until I swore never to waste water again.
@josemaldonado45775 жыл бұрын
How does that make any sense whatsoever
@humanbeing14295 жыл бұрын
I was in the habit of wasting water. But when mom wasted the water that I worked hard to fetch, I felt the pain. Yes she wasted a few buckets but it taught me a lesson of a lifetime, and also something to laugh about. 😂
@josemaldonado45775 жыл бұрын
@@humanbeing1429 Lmao
@josemaldonado45775 жыл бұрын
@@humanbeing1429 your mom was hilarious
@janumski_63995 жыл бұрын
Love the Skyrim music in the background
@davidfacalfuentes82965 жыл бұрын
I have always thought that Sisyphus torment was like hell, until i heard that Sisyphus would love to carry the boulder and let it slip, since he would challenge the gods forever
@1oldmovie1msubs655 жыл бұрын
All I know is that you must imagine sysiphus as happy.
@marcomarterer72325 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your video. I first encoutered the story of sisyphus as a Child in an sci-fi cartoon adaptation called Ulisses2000. This metaphor for poitnless endeavor stayd with me ever since and has also accured tome as a sad aspect of life itself.
@fadge41055 жыл бұрын
Me too. I was just about to comment when I seen yours. As I remember set in a futuristic world he eventually discovered the iron riveted boulder he was pushing over the top of the hill was just recycling all the time. School was never out!
@heidibevan19165 жыл бұрын
Tantalus remains me of King Midas in the respect's to having food & water so close, yet so fare away. Sisyphus remains me of when Tyr tricked Fenris into putting some chain on. Cool vid by the way 😊👍💜
@thoshinoshi5 жыл бұрын
Heidi Bevan it was tyr not thor
@heidibevan19165 жыл бұрын
@@thoshinoshi Ok, for some reason I had it in my head that it was Thor bt I'l change it 😊👍
@Nerfherder35 жыл бұрын
Tyr didn't trick the Fenrir wolf, Fenrir told the gods that they couldn't put the enchanted chain on him unless one of them would place their hand in his mouth. Tyr volunteered and Fenrir bite his right hand off
@amano2015 жыл бұрын
@@Nerfherder3 i guess you could call that he's *volunTyr*
@eval_is_evil4 жыл бұрын
Wat
@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg5 жыл бұрын
The choice of background music was spot on here 👍🏻 love hearing all the stories from mythology.
@bitterly_sorrying Жыл бұрын
I always have undergone and still undergo these two so greatly harrowing struggles ,the Sisyphean struggle and the Tantalean struggle and am utterly wrecked and forlorn...
@mutzgaming80715 жыл бұрын
First could you cover the difference between norse laws of mythology and the Greek laws of mythology
@gargoyles99995 жыл бұрын
Mutz Gaming Norse=Brofest Greek=Mary Sue
@druss69harad615 жыл бұрын
Lol...covered in Marvel comics.
@MatPost4 жыл бұрын
@king Daley Doug how about yoy take that religious conspiracy shit shove it waaaayyy up your arse
@edgimosanimations31165 жыл бұрын
I love your voice it’s so calming so soothing so mesmerizing
@BigJugsRule924 жыл бұрын
Syphilis- the man with the ultimate plan, and bad itch
@Lillian21673 жыл бұрын
I love how we get so many words from these stories and from Ancient Greece, I never knew this is where "Tantalise" came from. :3
@jcb38835 жыл бұрын
That skyrim bgm is spot on.
@emmanuelopoku38575 жыл бұрын
I watch these videos not because of the interesting things i learn here but rather i find the narrator's voice comforting and smooth
@Sentientsword5 жыл бұрын
What's never explained in the myth of Sisyphus is what his motivation is for continuing to roll the boulder. Why doesn't he just say "Screw this" and go fishing?
@Shiobana7535 жыл бұрын
Because if he does, Hades is gonna send the furies after him and punish him with something much worse.
@acedragon14565 жыл бұрын
In one version I read Hades gave Sisyphus the option of going to the Elysian fields or if he could get the boulder to the top of the hill (and keep it there presumably) then he would be resurrected. This is quite funny as souls that make it to the Elysian fields can chose to have their memories removed by the river Lethe and get resurrected (reincarnated?) that way. Make it to Elysium 3 consecutive times and you even get to go to a fancy island.
@malcomalexander94375 жыл бұрын
The isle of the Blessed, it's basically Elysium+.
@aleciagonzalez81075 жыл бұрын
"He was made to roll a boulder up a hilly
@pumblechook15055 жыл бұрын
@@acedragon1456 I thought only people in Elysium could be reborn (after being memory wiped). Maybe I'm wrong though
@AwesomeAlexAdam5 жыл бұрын
1:40 this Retribution sounds like the Hungry Ghost realm of Buddhism.
@APEX-qv7rm5 жыл бұрын
the Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus Is a very weird little book
@TheAidenSanders5 жыл бұрын
Sisyphos punishment is kind of a minimum wage jobs, you finish your shift just to have to start over the next day in an endless loop
@Nerko54825 жыл бұрын
That's Skyrim music in the background. I've spent so long on that game I can recognise even the music.
@PapaTaurean5 жыл бұрын
I always equate the tedium of keeping ahead of obsolescence in technology to Sissyphus rolling the Boulder up the hill. It's never ending and ultimately pointless.
@genaroromanjr49774 жыл бұрын
The book ,"the pearl" also shows of endless problems ,morphing from solutions being short lived.
@ianmurphy9955 Жыл бұрын
I love the story of Tantalus especially as that's the reason given for the word tantalise
@roninkannushi80203 жыл бұрын
I named one of my bicycles Sisyphus. Yep, I will ride every day to do it again tomorrow, for eternity. YAY!
@luqmaangalvaan82425 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who read Syphilis
@purpleasshole70435 жыл бұрын
The skyrim music in the background 😩
@V2Z75 жыл бұрын
I love how you play the skyrim soundtrack in the background ❤️❤️😍
@connortobin73985 жыл бұрын
I believe the worst punishment was for Prometheus. But for these two definitely the first of them.
@TheTeufelhunden685 жыл бұрын
Prometheus? Do you mean the Serpent in the Garden of Eden? Both sought to bring "enlightenment" to mankind. To do something good for Man and were both horribly punished. Nah, their can be no correlation as Greek mythology is merely fiction, while the bible is the irrefutable "WORD OF GOD". Nope, no similarity at all.
@mrexists54005 жыл бұрын
@@TheTeufelhunden68 well that came out of nowhere for no reason
@polaryu4 жыл бұрын
@@TheTeufelhunden68 the serpent didn't want to bring "enlightenment" he wanted to corrupt the world by tempting humans into becoming sinners.
@gleamingandshining9713 жыл бұрын
Prometheus was the creator of humans when the titans ruled. He made them by soil and clay and breathed life into them. He also gave the fire so that humans could be comfortable to life. To have knowledge and build a city of theirs. How dare you compare Hellenistic Beliefs to Christianity when all you Christians do is copy off what you call pagan stories. You cannot respect something older than your religion.
@gleamingandshining9713 жыл бұрын
I would believe it to be the "WORD OF GOD" if it wasn't written by men theirselves.
@7496coby5 жыл бұрын
Just wanted to say I love this channel. I exercise alot because of my health but for the same reason it gets rather painful at times and between the interesting subject matter and soothing voice these videos help me zone out while I listen to them. Keep up the great and work and thank you for your content.
@stevenmarshall99273 жыл бұрын
great,brilliant, superb choice of background song I must say
@makeupboss98125 жыл бұрын
This was really interesting ... more of stuff that I missed in High School. It’s kind of cool learning the stuff that was obviously overlooked.
@RleFay5 жыл бұрын
I love your videos about different mythologies. I was wondering if you were ever going to do Arthurian Mythology?
@John-ww1jk5 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad I found this channel
@repairstudio4940 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful! Liked and subbed.
@nicolasmouzakis6504 жыл бұрын
And tantalus giving the gods his son as food is also an insult considering their story with their father Cronos
@soulover4lyfe5 жыл бұрын
Great Storytelling and illustrations! What do you have of Hestia, the Goddess of Hearth?
@witri95 жыл бұрын
An endless struggle,....sounds like my marriage.
@illhorse4 жыл бұрын
I love learning the mythological history of some words we still use today. And I'm so glad we still use them. I was aware of tantalise, obviously, but not sisyphian. Going to start using it 😎 lol
@navbuoy5 жыл бұрын
Chicago had an unreleased album (well finally was released after decades) called Stone of Sisyphus.
@harlowitter30604 жыл бұрын
I don't really blame Sisyphus for revealing the secret he got in trouble for. When Zeus kidnapped a river nymph named Aegina in the form of an eagle, Aegina's father, a river god, followed their trail through Sisyphus's city to try and get his daughter back. To thank him for making a spring in the middle of the city, Sisyphus told him which way Zeus had taken her, which in turn made Zeus mad. He was just helping a guy rescue his kidnapped daughter! And we all know how Zeus can't keep it in his pants...😒
@gilbertotabares81965 жыл бұрын
Is Damocles next?
@mahmmodemran17443 жыл бұрын
Thanx for uploading. Keep the good doing
@donbuff3574 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the advice I intend to follow it
@NessWithABeard5 жыл бұрын
Sisyphus inspired me to turn his punishment into a fictional exercise for a webcomic I'm making. Imagine a race that takes pride in their superhuman strength. In schools, the statistics you achieve in gym class is measure of your work ethic and value. One of the exercises is identical to Sisyphus's punishment. Except you're required to roll the boulder up a hill, push it back down and do the whole process over and over until the time limit ends. It's something of a test of stamina when all is said and done. What do you think?
@molliethomas25855 жыл бұрын
That sounds pretty good 👍. Do it.
@NessWithABeard5 жыл бұрын
@@molliethomas2585 Thank you.
@sarahmeacheam75175 жыл бұрын
Cool
@chirpchirpchirpchrip56015 жыл бұрын
Sounds like that movie sky high
@aidendeangelo15095 жыл бұрын
XxGnarly 999xX you’re not wrong
@masindi59695 жыл бұрын
*The punishment of tentacles and syphilis.*
@certifiedbaddboy3 жыл бұрын
The background music ❤️
@wolfofcosmoscar87275 жыл бұрын
Nothing quite sets the mood for Greek (or any) mythology than a Skyrim soundtrack.
@HayashiManabu4 жыл бұрын
The Skyrim music is bringing back thoughts of the Daedric Princes and Aedra.
@Gezenolex5 жыл бұрын
Ah a nother great video as always and thank you 😃
@malcomalexander94375 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on Koschei The Deathless: the lich who stuck his soul in a needle, which he stuck in an egg, which he stuck in a duck, which he stuck in a hare, which he stuck in a chest, and which he hid on an island that moves around that is filled with all sorts of creatures(like the Baba Yaga).
@jacobschneider14555 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard of something like Tantalus’s punishment in Dante’s Purgatorio. People who were being cleansed of gluttony went through this (but they weren’t stuck in a pool of water).
@vickimarmillot57055 жыл бұрын
I have just now found your videos and am enjoying them immensely. Thank you!
@RafaelCruzPodcast5 жыл бұрын
I've been seeking for this channel my whole life
@RavensEye105 жыл бұрын
Your voice is like those ASMR soap cutting videos so satisfying
@Mathma72 жыл бұрын
I heard a version of the Sisyphus story where he locked Thanatos in a wardrobe, I can’t remember how he got him in there but I think he used Thanatos’s chains to lock him inside. (Funnily enough, I did actually lock my sister in a wardrobe once when I was little, the wardrobes had actual locks and keys and she was being annoying that afternoon. Don’t know why she got in there but I know she did so willingly. I let her out though because it creeped me out to potentially have her stuck in there banging and making noise to be let out. Thank goodness I was not punished in the manner that Sisyphus was for that!)
@exkelsior14865 жыл бұрын
You should do more of these! The horrid punishments are so interesting and creative
@Da_Ninja_Genko4 жыл бұрын
The story of sisyphus has hidden knowledge, that is that gravity is constant
@TheKyrix825 жыл бұрын
Ya know, sometimes the Greek gods did some evil stuff to punish mortals. These two kinda earned their stuff. Pretty much any one of their transgressions would earn a nasty punishment, but they decided to play out the joke about hell of "Commit a million sins and come down here a legend"
@krxwnvxk34325 жыл бұрын
never heard this one but i'm glad that you told it. thanks. need more from you.
@Lilith-zo1xd5 жыл бұрын
Would you be able to cover Maori Legends and Mythology?
@jackchase57275 жыл бұрын
Haven’t been this early since the video of Charon!
@anniatole4 жыл бұрын
These are my spirit gods, indeed... There is a boulder dangling over my head right now, in fact
@philliphsieh83 Жыл бұрын
We were rolling the rock up and it keeps rolling back down on us.
@ESUTERURE5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget Tantalus was able to finally drink and eat and the other with his rock went up the mountain and stayed when Orpheus came to the underworld while playing his lyre to find his lost love Eurydice.
@JayLeePoe5 жыл бұрын
The Story of Sisyphus is the tragedy of Peace. You may labor and pain for long stretches of peace and prosperity but you cannot end the depravity, death and war of mankind. No escape, not for mercy, pride or honor. Not even for the good of your people. Tantalus is the story of Temptation, obviously. The temptation to use great, arcane power for the supernatural benefit of "your people" -- and with haste! Arrogantly rushing toward the most direct solutions and answers despite the circumstances will yield collateral dmg. The hanging threat of the boulder is to represent the fear he should have felt when tunnel-visioned by "the solution"-- damn the consequences. It's also like using the powers of others with utter contempt for their own personage. It's cruel and shortsighted, whatever the outcome or intentions.
@slappy89415 жыл бұрын
After watching videos about divine punishments, I have to wonder how the Greeks would explain our modem governments.
@drnuri67055 жыл бұрын
TANTALUS got worse... (yea I knew the stories I just knew you'd give me more info .... thaaaancks))
@queenfree854 жыл бұрын
Hmm... Not exactly sure why but this was in my recommended videos and I'm glad I took a second to watch. Interesting to see where it seems being "tantalized" and the warning "don't be a sissy" come from. Very cool. Just gained a new subscriber!
@PapaTaurean5 жыл бұрын
I always equate the pursuit of technology akin to the story of Sisyphus. No matter how close get to the top of the hill, new technology comes along, rendering our old technology obsolete, and the boulder rolls down the hill, only to start again.
@omegakirin5 жыл бұрын
This may be the best channel on youtube. Subbed!
@aphroditequeenoflove52175 жыл бұрын
Excellent story of warnings! Love it!
@micahhammac12424 жыл бұрын
I can't get no.... Dadadaaaa. Satisfaction dadadaaaa
@shanar63965 жыл бұрын
Hah, I love that you used the music from skyrim..it fits so well!!!
@jackqueslack23392 жыл бұрын
Eternity is an absolutely terrifying thing.
@sydneymorris99195 жыл бұрын
Another good video from you man, keep it up!
@7ajhubbell4 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@idraote5 жыл бұрын
Generally speaking, I nearly always root for the human being punished as I think that the Greek gods don't have the moral authoritativeness to punish others. They just have the power to do it.
@FramesJanco5055 жыл бұрын
I love the video, as well as the Skyrim music in the background 🤘🏾 the page is incredible. I've studied these myths since i was a kid and you've mentioned things that I never knew. It's awesome
@mahmmodemran17443 жыл бұрын
One out of millions can match this riddle. What can easily break but never touch. Guess
@Justin-gu9kh5 жыл бұрын
That Skyrim background is making heavily depressed right now but I can't stop watching
@Timbo__Slice4 жыл бұрын
What happened to the people tantalus gave nectar and ambrosia to I can't find anything about it
@pingufan12395 жыл бұрын
2:15 What if he uses his hands to collect the water, if of course his hands can reach at the time.
@apenasmaisumdiogo.71154 жыл бұрын
Some versions says that the water evaporated before it got close to his mouth