(Or, as the Bible bluntly puts it, the love of money is the root of all evil.) The moral of King Midas, of course, was not that he was famed for his wealth and success, but that his greed for gold was his undoing: the story, if anything, is a warning about the dangers of corruption that money and riches can bring. However, as this last example shows, we often employ these myths in ways which run quite contrary to the moral messages the original myths impart. We describe a challenging undertaking as a Herculean task, and speak of somebody who enjoys great success as having the Midas touch. So we describe somebody’s weakness as their Achilles heel, or we talk about the dangers of opening up Pandora’s box. The rock would roll down once he reached the top and he would have to push it up again.The Greek myths are over two thousand years old – and perhaps, in their earliest forms, much older – and yet many stories from Greek mythology, and phrases derived from those stories, are part of our everyday speech. He condemned Sisyphus to roll a rock up a hill.Zeus was angry because he had been out smarted.His trick worked and he lived for many years with his wife till his death.The gods were angry at this and sent Sisyphus back to punish his wife.Sisyphus instructed his wife to not put a coin under his tongue.Gods threatened punishment so he released Hades.

Sisyphus deceived him and bound him with a chain.

Zeus asks Hades to take Sisyphus to the underworld.

Zeus turns his daughter into an island, himself into a rock.

Sisyphus told him that Zeus had stolen her.

Sisyphus bargained with Asopus, a spring for info.

Asopus, a river god, lost his daughter.

Sisyphus of Corinth- The very clever king.

Allowed the dead to enter but not leave.

Cerberus- Three headed dog and guardian of the underworld.

Would only ferry people across who had money.

Hermes- Guided the soul of the dead to the river Styx.

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