It seems as though every culture or mythological system has death myths.\u00a0 The preoccupation with the afterlife is something that has transferred very quickly into our modern world.\u00a0 We see it with the never-ending pursuit of that youthful glow.\u00a0 In Ancient Greece, Sisyphus’s obsession over not dying led him to trick Gods, force his wife to not bury him, and negotiating with the goddess Persephone.\u00a0 He was able to trick death two times, but the third time was his failure.\u00a0 As punishment, he is forced to roll an enchanted boulder up a hill for eternity.\u00a0 It is his Sisyphean task.<\/p>\n
Join me as I give a summary of the myth of Sisyphus, talk about how I connected the myth to modern poetry, and question how I will greet death when he comes for me.<\/p>\n