PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The Danaids are the 50 daughters of Danaus who married the sons of Aegyptus, and murdered their husbands. They still suffer punishment in the Underworld where they must carry water to fill a leaky jar.
Sisyphus has to do the never ending task of rolling a bolder up the hill for betraying Zeus
Tantalus made a soup for them to eat. The soup contained his son's body, who he killed. To pay for his crime, he was not able to eat or drink anything in the Underworld.
Ixion is bound to a burning solar wheel for all eternity, at first spinning across the heavens,[8] but in later myth transferred to Tartarus.
Niobe bragged about her children in front of the goddess Leto
Salmoneus' subjects were ordered to worship him under the name of Zeus. Zeus eventually struck him down with his thunderbolt and destroyed the town. Virgil's Aeneid has Salmoneus placed in Tartarus where he is subjected to eternal torment.
Antigone breaks the laws of man to honor the laws of gods. Antigone ultimately takes her own life rather than draw out her death sentence of live burial and starvation.
