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Re: Sisyphus

From Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk>
Newsgroups alt.mythology, humanities.classics, soc.culture.greek, alt.fan.countries.greece, alt.pagan, alt.religion.christian.greek-orthodox
Subject Re: Sisyphus
Date 2024-11-29 11:33 +0000
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Ed Cryer wrote:.
>>
> 
> I recommend Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus; all about how absurd 
> life is.
> 
> Other mythical sufferers of divine Greek punishment; Tantalus, Ixion, 
> Prometheus.
> Pretty horrific, but Dante came up with some worse Christian ones.
> 
> Ed
> 
> 

The Greeks had hundreds of similar example of "hubris". Anybody trying 
to reach high gets knocked down, like Otus and Ephialtes who piled mount 
Pelion on Ossa to try and get to Olympus.
I find all that strangely at odds with all the great successes that the 
Greeks produced; Aristotle, Archimedes, Euclid, etc.; all great rational 
and scientific minds, as great as Einstein, Bohr or Faraday in their day.

Ed

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Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-25 23:48 -0330
  Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-26 09:20 +0000
  Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-27 12:56 +0000
    Re: Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-27 17:53 -0330
      Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-27 22:21 +0000
        Re: Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-28 01:11 -0330
        Re: Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-28 01:19 -0330
        Re: Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-28 03:08 -0330
          Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-28 09:36 +0000
            Re: Sisyphus David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2024-11-29 00:38 -0330
              Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-29 11:16 +0000
                Re: Sisyphus Ed Cryer <ed@somewhere.in.the.uk> - 2024-11-29 11:33 +0000

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