In the words of Darth Vader to his son..."Impressive, most impressive." I especially liked the Camus connection, I was thinking of it while I read it even before I saw your introduction.

WOW!

I actually just recently got into the whole Sisyphus legend thing because I started my own story of him, so I've been doing research and dinking around on the internet trying to find as much as I can on him and other people's takes of him so that I can form my own version. On a whim I wondered if anybody had put up any stories on here about him- I'm so glad that I found yours!

This was absolutely fantastic and to be able to tell such a wondrous story how you did in the form of a play - amazing! I really wish more people would read stuff like this instead of most of the crap out there- and I wish that there were more writers like you! This was just absolutely phenomenal and blew my mind away! lol!

Wow, I just can go on and on, can't I?

Anyway, the gist of this little (okay, maybe I'm underplaying that)ginormous tirade is that this was fantastic and I wish it were made into an actual play. That'd be so totally awesome. Something I'd definitely go see again and again. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful writing with the rest of the world!

I bow at your feet in worship and applaude you so loud that you go deaf! XD

lotsa love-

mentallyinsanepyress

Wow. That was sort of amazing.

Like you said, it was the only possible ending for the nature of this man, but one I didn't see coming. Thank you. It's been five fantastic chapters. You should have more reviews, really, but it's ffnet. What are you going to do? I'm sure there are places on livejournal that'd appreciate it more, but I can't really imagine a traditional Greek play garnering much interest. But hey, if it helps, I thought it was wickedly awesome.

I loved pretty much all of Sisyphus' lines, how fully they described mortal fear and anticipation of the horror of death, and especially this past-

"I would not choose to be, if it would mean

that I would be like you – unpitying

and without comprehension. Be gone, you dog.

Complain to high Olympus, curse me, send

the Furies after me, but never speak

to me again – you are not worthy of it."

-And how thoroughly they glorify the brevity and suffering of mortal life.

Overall, great, great job in taking the play full circle. I hope to see you writing again.

"I fear not pain, but absence of its bite;

I fear not shadows, but the vanished light;

I fear not dreams, but oh – the dreamless night…"

Ah.

This is one of those things I desperately wish I'd come up with myself. That's kind of epic.

Poor, poor Merope. It's kind of funny how the people you never paid attention to when you read the myths spring to technicolor'd life when retold.

As for the latest developement-Woah, plot! I can't wait to see where this goes. Although I have to wonder if Sisyphus will ever bow his pride and become one of the mindless dead. I doubt it, because he's had his pride so long he pretty much is his pride, if I'm reading him correctly. Even his wife's death couldn't break it. Although what the gods do to him is a different matter.

It's seriously incredible what you're doing with Sisyphus's character. So much empty pride! And that talk with Bellerophon-amazing. It's really very apparent that he considers equal, if not superior to the gods. Does he really think the gods would watch if he wept? (Question: Do they?)

On Lethe: Does Sisyphus have the option of drinking from the river? I mean, obviously he would turn it down, but does he?

Fascinating, I take it Shakespeare was one of your muses? The style and iambic pantameter is very similair. Well done!

WOAH Sisyphus is being a bitch, what?

I feel for Glaucus, really. And I really didn't expect Sisyphus to forgive him, but, man, being that cruel to your own son? Well, I expect he's a bit jaded on the agonies of death and all, but still.

I wonder if the conversation with Bellerophon will go similarly. (By the way-Am I right in thinking that this was the guy who rose Pegasus about everywhere? And died blind and alone because of his pride? Seems to me they'd have quite a bit to bond over.)

Wow. I think I like this even better than your last play. This is really, really good. (I particularly liked the Chorus part, I was halfway through it when I realized I was chanting it beneath my breath, and couldn't find any breaks in the meter)

And this is a whole new view on the whole Sisyphus thing, too. I always thought of him as conceited twat who deserved what he got, but sheesh. Now I'll have to look at that myth a completely different way.