The Man Who Cheated Death TWICE | Greek Mythology

He chained Death in his own palace. He tricked the queen of the underworld. And the gods gave him the cruellest punishment ever imagined: a stone, a hill, and eternity. This is the full story of Sisyphus, the craftiest of men, told from the ancient sources — and why, in 1942, Albert Camus said we must imagine him happy. Do you think Sisyphus was happy? Tell me in the comments. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The man and the stone 1:28 I. The Craftiest of Men 2:54 II. The Secret of Zeus 4:18 III. Death in Chains 6:04 IV. The Second Escape 7:35 V. The Stone 9:23 VI. One Must Imagine SOURCES: Homer, Iliad 6.152–153 and Odyssey 11.593–600 · Pherecydes fr. 119 (scholia on Iliad 6.153) · Theognis 702–712 · Pausanias 2.1.1 and 2.5.1 · Apollodorus, Library 1.9.3 · Hyginus, Fabulae 201 and Astronomica 2.21 · Polyaenus 6.52 · Ovid, Fasti 4.175–178 and Metamorphoses 6.113 · Hesiod, Theogony 211–212, 758–766 · Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe (1942) Attic black-figure amphora with Sisyphus, c. 510 BC (Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich). Music (CC BY 4.0) by Scott Buckley — www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Anabasis I' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Katabasis I' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Juggernaut' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Chronicle' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Descent' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Meanwhile' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Eyes In The Void' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Hymn to the Dawn' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Shadows and Dust' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'A Dragon's Lullaby' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Balefire' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Memories Of Stone' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Cirrus' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au 'Echoes' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au #Sisyphus #GreekMythology #Camus #Mythology #Thanatos #Hades