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Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of Corinth). [8] King Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce but was avaricious and deceitful. He killed guests and travelers in his palace, a violation of guest-obligations, which fell under Zeus' domain, thus angering the god. Sisyphus took pleasure in these ...
The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard , Arthur Schopenhauer , and Friedrich Nietzsche , Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd .
Sisyphus: The Myth [5] [6] (Korean: 시지프스: the myth) is a 2021 South Korean television series starring Cho Seung-woo and Park Shin-hye. [7] Labeled as "JTBC's 10th Anniversary Special Drama", it aired on JTBC from February 17 to April 8, 2021; [8] [9] each episode was released on Netflix in South Korea and internationally after its television broadcast every Wednesday and Thursday at 21 ...
In Tartarus, Sisyphus was forced forever to try to roll a large boulder to the top of a mountain slope, which, no matter how many times he nearly succeeded in his attempt, would always roll back to the bottom. [11] This constituted the punishment (fitting the crime) of Sisyphus for daring to claim that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus.
By marrying Sisyphus, she became the only one of the Pleiades to mate with a mortal. Glaucus was the brother of Almus , Thersander and Ornytion ( Porphyrion ) At first, Sisyphus had tried to arrange a marriage for Glaucus with the shape-shifting Mestra , a daughter of Erysichthon , but despite the payment of valuable bride-gifts, she eluded the ...
Sisyphus (Spanish: Sísifo) is an oil on canvas painting by the Venetian master Titian, made in 1548-1549. It is in the collection of the Museo del Prado, in Madrid.
Tyro's father Salmoneus was the brother of Athamas and Sisyphus. She was married to her uncle Cretheus, [4] King of Iolcus but Tyro loved the river god Enipeus who refused her advances. One day, Poseidon filled with lust for Tyro, disguised himself as Enipeus and from their union were born Pelias and Neleus, twin boys.
The Sisyphus (/ ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s /; Greek: Σίσυφος) is purported to be one of the dialogues of Plato. The dialogue is extant and was included in the Stephanus edition published in Geneva in 1578. It is now generally acknowledged to be spurious. The work probably dates from the fourth century BCE, and the author was presumably a pupil ...