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Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of Corinth). [8] According to Pausanias, Sisyphus, as king, founded the Isthmian games in honour of Melicertes, whose dead body was found washed up along the Isthmus of Corinth, having been carried to shore by a dolphin. [13]
Thanatos was thus regarded as merciless and indiscriminate, hated by – and hateful towards — mortals and gods alike. But in myths which feature him, Thanatos could occasionally be outwitted, a feat that the sly King Sisyphus of Korinth twice accomplished. When it came time for Sisyphus to die, Zeus ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus up in ...
Magnes was the son of Zeus and Thyia, daughter of Deucalion, and brother of Makednos. [1] [2] In the Bibliotheca, Magnes was placed in the later generation of the Deucalionides, for this time he was the son of Aeolus and Enarete and brother to Aeolian progenitors: Cretheus, Sisyphus, Athamas, Salmoneus, Deion, Perieres, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice, Calyce and Perimede.
He is known for endlessly cutting down a self-healing osmanthus tree on the Moon, [a] a divine punishment which has led to his description as the Chinese Sisyphus. [ 2 ] [ 5 ] In modern Chinese, the chengyu "Wu Gang chopping the tree" ( 吳剛伐桂 ; wúgāng-fáguì ) is used to describe any endless toil.
In the underworld Sisyphus was compelled to roll a big stone up a steep hill; but before it reached the top of the hill the stone always rolled down, and Sisyphus had to begin all over again. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The subject was a commonplace of ancient writers, and Titian's source was a passage in Ovid's Metamorphoses , [ 3 ] which recounts the eternal ...
Autolycus, master of thievery, was also well known for stealing Sisyphus' herd right from underneath him – Sisyphus, who was commonly known for being a crafty king that killed guests, seduced his niece and stole his brothers' throne [16] and was banished to the throes of Tartarus by the gods. However, according to other versions of the myth ...
The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard , Arthur Schopenhauer , and Friedrich Nietzsche , Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd .
1866 Sisyphus / ˈ s ɪ s ɪ f ə s / is a binary [8] stony asteroid, near-Earth object and the largest member of the Apollo group, approximately 7 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 5 December 1972, by Swiss astronomer Paul Wild at Zimmerwald Observatory near Bern, Switzerland, and given the provisional designation 1972 XA .