"series were released (with accompanying cassettes) in the US, under the title ""Look, Listen and Read"". These compilations contained stories or themes that related to each other, either by author or content. Examples include ""The Best of Aesop"", ""The Legend of King Arthur"", ""Jack and the Beanstalk"", and ""Rapunzel."" The main differentiator between ""Story Teller"" and Disney's ""Storytime"" was the fact that the latter featured only Disney characters. ""Storytime"" hit newsagents' shelves soon after ""Story Teller"" proved to be a bestseller. It was published in 24 parts and customised binders and cassette boxes were produced to house the collection (just"
"Sisyphus In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos (; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος ""Sísuphos"") was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down when it nears the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean (). Linguistics Professor R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a pre-Greek origin and a connection with the root of the word ' (σοφός, ""wise"")."
"bare repetition. Wolfgang Mieder has collected cartoons that build on the image of Sisyphus, many of them editorial cartoons. Sisyphus In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos (; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος ""Sísuphos"") was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill only for it to roll down when it nears the top, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on modern culture, tasks that are both laborious and futile are therefore described as Sisyphean (). Linguistics Professor R. S."
"his instrument. Since he could not, Apollo was deemed to victor. Apollo hung Marsyas from a pine tree and flayed him alive to punish him for his hubris in daring to challenge one of the gods. Later, this story became accepted as canonical and the Athenian sculptor Myron created a group of bronze sculptures based on it, which was installed before the western front of the Parthenon in around 440 BC. Surviving retellings of the legend are found in the ""Library"" of Pseudo-Apollodorus, Pausanias's ""Guide to Greece"", and the ""Fabulae"" of Pseudo-Hyginus. In a myth referenced in multiple classical texts,"
"Socrates on Trial Socrates on Trial is a play depicting the life and death of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates. It tells the story of how Socrates was put on trial for corrupting the youth of Athens and for failing to honour the city’s gods. The play contains adaptations of several classic Greek works: the slapstick comedy, ""Clouds"", written by Aristophanes and first performed in 423 BCE; the dramatic monologue, ""Apology"", written by Plato to record the defence speech Socrates gave at his trial; and Plato’s ""Crito"" and ""Phaedo"", two dialogues describing the events leading to Socrates’ execution in 399"
"lurid tales of sexual perversity and cruelty of Tiberius during the later part of his reign while he was living at Capri, Tiberius would execute people by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. These people were tortured before being executed and if they survived the fall, men waiting below in boats would break their bones with oars and boathooks. In pre-colonial South Africa, several tribes including the Xhosa and the Zulu had named Execution Hills, from which miscreants were hurled to their deaths. These societies had no form of imprisonment so punishment was corporal,"
"but now forever. The story in this form belongs to the time of Virgil, who first introduces the name of Aristaeus (by the time of Virgil's ""Georgics"", the myth has Aristaeus chasing Eurydice when she was bitten by a serpent) and the tragic outcome. Other ancient writers, however, speak of Orpheus' visit to the underworld in a more negative light; according to Phaedrus in Plato's ""Symposium"", the infernal gods only ""presented an apparition"" of Eurydice to him. In fact, Plato's representation of Orpheus is that of a coward, as instead of choosing to die in order to be with the"
"condemned to have his tongue cut out, after watching the executions of his family, and to have his hands and feet tied... Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia, executed in 613, is generally regarded to have suffered the same death, though one account has it that she was tied to the tail of a single horse and thus suffered more of a dragging death. The Liber Historiae Francorum, an eighth century chronicle, describes her death by dismemberment as follows: The story of Brunhilda being tied to the tail of a ""single"" horse (and then to die in some gruesome manner) is promoted,"
"as was the ""pharmakos"" in some traditions; and Aesop was thrown from a cliff, as was the pharmakos in some traditions. Gregory Nagy, in ""Best of the Achaeans"" (1979), compared Aesop’s ""pharmakos"" death to the “worst” of the Achaeans in the ""Iliad"", Thersites. More recently, both Daniel Ogden, ""The Crooked Kings of Ancient Greece"" (1997) and Todd Compton, ""Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero"" (2006) examine poet ""pharmakoi"". Compton surveys important poets who were exiled, executed or suffered unjust trials, either in history, legend or Greek or Indo-European myth. Walter Burkert and René Girard have written"
"they threw themselves off the Acropolis, or, according to Hyginus, into the sea. An alternative version of the same story is that, while Athena was gone bringing a limestone mountain from the Pallene peninsula to use in the Acropolis, the sisters, minus Pandrosus again, opened the box. A crow witnessed the opening and flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain (now Mt. Lykabettos). Once again, Herse and Aglaurus went insane and threw themselves to their deaths from a cliff. Another legend represents Agraulos in a totally different light. Athens was at one time"
"death by trapping Hades in his own manacles. Hades is freed by Ares, but Sisyphus escapes death a second time by deceiving Persephone. At last Hermes takes Sisyphus to Tartarus, to be condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. Meanwhile, Hera and the Olympians conspire to imprison Zeus in a net while he is distracted raining thunderbolts on Asopus. Thetis fetches Briareus to free him. Zeus punishes Hera by hanging her in the sky, and sets Poseidon and Apollo the vain task of building the doomed city of Troy. Hephaestus, seeing Hera's punishment, berates Zeus, and Zeus"
"of his hiding-place, driven to the Gemonian stairs and struck down. His last words were ""Yet I was once your Emperor"". On those same stairs, Decebal's head was thrown along with his right hand in 106 A.D. During Republican times, the Tarpeian Rock, a steep cliff at the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was used for similar purposes. Murderers and traitors, if convicted by the ""quaestores parricidii"", were flung from the cliff to their deaths. Infants who suffered from significant mental or physical disabilities sometimes suffered the same fate, as they were thought to have been cursed by the"
"but Pandore opposes his action in defying Zeus. Then Gaia appears to warn the titan of the consequences of his action. She is followed by Kratos (power) and Bia (violence), sent by Zeus to punish him; with them is the divine smith Hephaestus, who is a friend of Prométhée. The three tell Prométhée his sentence: he will be chained forever to a rock and every day a black eagle shall drink from his veins. The female choir enters carrying Pandore on a bier of leafy branches, after which Aenoë makes the funeral oration. Prométhée returns with the executioners from Olympus."
"flew away to tell Athena, who fell into a rage and dropped the mountain (now Mt. Lykabettos). Once again, Herse and Aglauros went insane and threw themselves to their deaths off the cliffs of the Acropolis. This story supposedly inspired an ancient ritual in Athens: ""The Festival of the Dew Carriers"" or Arrhephoria. Some authors, such as Ovid in his ""Metamorphoses"" and ""Ars Amatoria"", wrote a different end for Herse and Aglauros. Ovid tells in Book 2 of his ""Metamorphoses"" that Erichthonius was born without a mother. Pallas Athena (better known as Athena, Minerva is her Roman name) placed him"
"Sabbath and sentenced by God to death by stoning in the book of Numbers XV.32-36. Some Germanic cultures thought he was a man caught stealing from a neighbor's hedgerow to repair his own. There is a Roman legend that he is a sheep-thief. One medieval Christian tradition claims him to be Cain, the Wanderer, forever doomed to circle the Earth. Dante's ""Inferno"" alludes to this: <poem> For now doth Cain with fork of thorns confine On either hemisphere, touching the wave Beneath the towers of Seville. Yesternight The moon was round.</poem> This is mentioned again in his ""Paradise"": <poem> But"
"cliff into the sea as he cursed him) after the latter attempted to claim Hippodamia. As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted descendents of Pelops', including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes. Also, the burial place of Myrtilus was a ""taraxippus"" in Olympia, a ""horse-frightening place"" during races. In memory of Oenomaus, the Olympic Games were created (or alternatively the Olympic Games were in celebration of Pelops' victory). Oenomaus' chariot race was one legendary origin of the Olympic Games; one of its turning-posts was preserved, and round it grew an Elean"
"levitates from a high wooden tower made upon his request, and dies ""divided into four parts"" due to the fall. Peter and Paul were then put in prison by Nero while ordering Simon's body be kept carefully for three days (thinking he would rise again). The Pseudo-Clementine ""Recognitions"" and ""Homilies"" give an account of Simon Magus and some of his teachings in regards to the Simonians. They are of uncertain date and authorship, and seem to have been worked over by several hands in the interest of diverse forms of belief. Simon was a Samaritan, and a native of Gitta."
"Lichas In Greek mythology, Lichas (; ) was Heracles' servant, who brought the poisoned shirt from Deianira to Hercules because of Deianira's jealousy of Iole, which killed him. Lichas brought to his master the deadly garment, and as a punishment, was thrown by him into the sea, where the Lichadian islands, between Euboea and the coast of Locris, were believed to have derived their name from him. The story is recounted in Sophocles’ ""Women of Trachis"" and Ovid’s ""Metamorphoses"". Cape Lichada is said to be where Hercules flung Lichas into the sea: ""So, in his frenzy, as he wandered there,<br>he"
"for example, by Ted Byfield (2003), in which he writes: ""Then they tied her to the tail of a wild horse; whipped into frenzy, it kicked her to death"" The cited source for this claim, however, the seventh century ""Life of St. Columban"" by the monk Jonas, does not support this claim. In paragraph 58 in his work, Jonas just writes: ""..but Brunhilda he had placed first on a camel in mockery and so exhibited to all her enemies round about then she was bound to the tails of wild horses and thus perished wretchedly"" The storyline of Brunhilde being"
"death, or kept secretly in a hidden dungeon for the rest of her life. Citing Fabius, Cincius, Porcius Cato, and Piso, Dionysius recounts the most common tale. The king orders the twins to be tossed into the Tiber. When his servants arrived at the riverbank, high waters had made it impossible to reach the stream. They left the twin's basket in a pool of standing water on the site of the ficus Ruminalis. After the waters of the Tiber had carried the twins away, their basket is overturned by a rock and they are dumped into the mud. A she-wolf"
"at the trial and was handed a sentence of forced labour for the rest of his life. The two others were sentenced to death and were sent to the guillotine. Just before his execution, Sitarane asked to be baptised. Curiously, only the name Sitarane remains alive in local folklore and history, and today his grave - bedecked with flowers and candles - is the focus of a genuine cult. According to the tradition of witchcraft on the island, many sorcerers call upon Sitarane's spirit when performing black magic. It is also claimed that anyone planning a crime or a hold-up,"
"a precipitous place. When they knelt before him, he would suddenly give them a kick over the cliff into the sea, where the victim's body was devoured by a huge monstrous sea turtle which used to swim under the rocks or rolled down the crags into the sea at a place called Chelone (i.e. tortoise). As his fourth labour, Theseus slew him in the same way, by pushing him off the cliff or according to some, the hero seized him by the feet and threw him into the sea. In the pediment of the royal Stoa at Athens, there was"
"She instantly recognized it as poison and sent her messenger to warn Heracles but it was too late. Heracles lay dying slowly and painfully as the robe burned his skin—either in actual flames or by the heat of poison. He died a noble death on a funeral pyre of oak branches. Heracles was then taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus and welcomed among the gods for his heroic exploits. A similar theme appears in certain versions of the story of Medea. Sophocles' play Trachiniae (Women of Trachis) is extensively based on a retelling of this myth. F. Diez de Velasco,"
"up his immortality, and take the place of Prometheus, who had been chained in to the top of a mountain to have his liver eaten daily by an eagle, although he was an immortal Titan. Prometheus' torturer, the eagle, continued its torture on Chiron, so Heracles shot it dead with an arrow. It is generally accepted that the tale was meant to show Heracles as being the recipient of Chiron's surrendered immortality. However, this tale contradicts the fact that Chiron later taught Achilles. The tale of the Centaurs sometimes appears in other parts of the twelve labours, as does the"
"and the prophecy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son, from a javelin blow. Diodorus Siculus, gives a slightly different version of the story, saying that an oracle had been given to Althaemenes which said that he was destined to kill his father. Another tradition, followed by Sophocles in his play ""Ajax"" and by Euripides in the lost play ""Kressai"", was that Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and sent her to Nauplius to be drowned. The story of Catreus shares similarities with stories told about Aleus, king of Tegea. In these stories, Aleus"
"royal adoration. In Carthage, crucifixion was an established mode of execution, which could even be imposed on generals for suffering a major defeat. The oldest crucifixion may be a post-mortem one mentioned by Herodotus. Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos, was put to death in 522 B.C. by Persians, and his dead body was then crucified. The hypothesis that the Ancient Roman custom of crucifixion may have developed out of a primitive custom of ""arbori suspendere""—hanging on an ""arbor infelix"" (""inauspicious tree"") dedicated to the gods of the nether world—is rejected by William A. Oldfather, who shows that this form of"
"a high rock or beaten to death. During the Roman Republic, the Tarpeian Rock, a steep cliff at the southern summit of the Capitoline Hill, was used for public executions. Murderers and traitors, if convicted by the quaestores parricidii, were flung from the cliff to their deaths. Those who had a mental or significant physical disability also suffered the same fate as they were thought to have been cursed by the gods. Later, during the Roman Empire, the Gemonian stairs were used for this purpose. Their use as a place of execution is most closely associated with the later part"
"catching up to Pelops and readying to kill him, the wheels flew off and the chariot broke apart. Myrtilus survived, but Oenomaus was dragged to death by his horses. When Myrtilus tried to claim his reward and have sex with Hippodamia, Pelops killed Myrtilus by throwing him off a cliff into the sea. If Hippodamia was the one who asked Myrtilus for help and did not tell Pelops, then Pelops may have assumed that Myrtilus was trying to rape Hippodamia. As Myrtilus died, he cursed Pelops. This was the source of the curse that haunted Hippodamia and Pelops' children Atreus"
"giant and carries him on his shoulders to the top of a high rock, from which he throws the giant down into the sea. The place where he fell was known as ""Gogmagog's Leap"" to posterity. Gogmagog's combat with Corineus according to Geoffrey was repeated in Wace's Anglo-Norman ""Brut"" and Layamon's Middle-English ""Brut"". Because Geoffrey's work is regarded as fact until the late 17th Century, the story has continued to appear in most early histories of Britain. The tale of Gogmagog's ancestry was composed later in the 14th century. Known as the ""Albina story"" (or ""Des Grantz Geanz""), it claimed"
"the men responsible with him, as the senate and Romulus had ordered, an angry mob stones him to death. After his rule had turned more dictatorial, Romulus met his end. Either through actions divine or earthly. According to some reports, Romulus is swept up into heaven, where he takes his place among the gods as Quirinus. Others point to the hands of the nobility, who had grown ever more resentful of their treatment by king. Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, , ""Dionysios son of Alexandros of Halikarnassos""; c. 60 BCafter 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher"
"Gogmagog (giant) Gogmagog (also ""Goemagot, Goemagog, Goëmagot"" and ""Gogmagoc"") was a legendary giant in Welsh and later English folklore. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth's ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" (""The History of The Kings of Britain"", 12th century), he was a giant inhabitant of Albion, thrown off a cliff during a wrestling match with Corineus (a companion of Brutus of Troy). Gogmagog was the last of the Giants found by Brutus and his men inhabiting the land of Albion. The effigies of Gogmagog and Corineus, used in English pageantry and later instituted as guardian statues at Guildhall in London eventually earned the"
"boy is presented, and Merlin replies, ""Woman or no, he will drown."" As a young man, the victim, in a hunt, falls from a rock, is caught in a tree, and hanging head down in a lake, drowns. Myrddin Wyllt also reportedly prophesied his own death, which would happen by falling, stabbing, and drowning. This was fulfilled when a gang of jeering shepherds drove him off a cliff, where he was impaled on a stake left by fishermen, and died with his head below water. The Norse god Odin is also associated with the threefold death. Human sacrifices to Odin"
"person who looked at it that night would be dead before sunrise the next day. In one version of the story this curse of the hag was lifted by one Regan (one of Finn's men), with the aid of a magic cap gifted by the magician Luno of Lochlin - the story tells how a large erratic stone in the area, known as the ""Clough-a-Regaun"" (or Cloghregan), was thrown by the hag at the escaping hero of the tale, Regan. According to the 19th century recorder of the tale, Thomas Crofton Croker, the name Carrigogunnel has its origins in the"