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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]
Sisyphus was forcefully dragged back to Tartarus by Hermes when he refused to go back to the Underworld after that. 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]
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 ...
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 ...
Sterope, also Asterope, mother of King Oenomaus of Elis by Ares or wife of Oenomaus instead. [18] Merope, youngest of the Pleiades. [19] In other mythic contexts, she married Sisyphus [20] and, becoming mortal, faded away. Merope bore Sisyphus several sons including Glaucus. [21]
Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William ...
Dercylidas (Greek: Δερκυλίδας) was a Spartan commander during the late 5th and early 4th century BCE. He was nicknamed Sisyphus for his cunning and inventiveness.. In 411 BCE he was appointed harmost at Abydos in the Hellespont.
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...