• • • Reign [ ] Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of ). King Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce but was avaricious and deceitful. He also killed travellers and guests, a violation of, which fell under 's domain. He took pleasure in these killings because they allowed him to maintain his iron-fisted rule. Conflict with Salmoneus [ ] Sisyphus and his brother Salmoneus were known to hate each other, and Sisyphus consulted with the of Delphi on just how to kill Salmoneus without incurring any severe consequences for himself. From onward, Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men.

In Greek mythology Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He is being punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it come back to hit him, repeating this action for eternity. Through the classical influence on.

He seduced Salmoneus's daughter in one of his plots to kill Salmoneus, only for Tyro to slay the children she bore by him when she discovered that Sisyphus was planning on eventually using them to dethrone her father. Cheating death [ ] King Sisyphus also betrayed one of Zeus' secrets by revealing the whereabouts of (an who was taken away by Zeus) to her father (the river god ) in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian. [ ] Zeus then ordered, Death, to chain King Sisyphus down below in.

Sisyphus was curious as to why, whose job it was to guide souls to the Underworld, had not appeared on this occasion. King Sisyphus slyly asked Thanatos to demonstrate how the chains worked.

As Thanatos was granting him his wish, Sisyphus seized the opportunity and trapped Thanatos in the chains instead. Once Thanatos was bound by the strong chains, no one died on earth. This caused an uproar especially for (who was annoyed that his battles had lost their fun because his opponents would not die), and so he intervened. The exasperated Ares freed Thanatos and turned King Sisyphus over to Thanatos. In another version, was sent to chain Sisyphus and was chained himself.

As long as Hades was tied up, nobody could die. Because of this, sacrifices could not be made to the gods, and those that were old and sick were suffering. The gods finally threatened to make life so miserable for Sisyphus that he would wish he were dead. He then had no choice but to release Hades. Before King Sisyphus died, he had told his wife to throw his naked body into the middle of the public square (purportedly as a test of his wife's love for him). This caused King Sisyphus to end up on the shores of the river. Then, complaining to that this was a sign of his wife's disrespect for him, King Sisyphus persuaded her to allow him to return to the upper world.

Once back in Ephyra, the spirit of King Sisyphus scolded his wife for not burying his body and giving it a proper funeral (as a loving wife should). When King Sisyphus refused to return to the Underworld, he was forcibly dragged back there. [ ] In another version of the myth, Persephone, goddess of the Underworld, was tricked by Sisyphus that he had been conducted to Tartarus by mistake, and so she ordered that he be released. In by, there is a reference to the father of (rumoured to have been Sisyphus, and not, whom we know as the father in the Odyssey) upon having returned from the dead. Punishment in the Underworld [ ] As a punishment for his trickery, King Sisyphus was made to endlessly roll a huge boulder up a steep hill.

The maddening nature of the punishment was reserved for King Sisyphus due to his belief that his cleverness surpassed that of Zeus himself. Zeus accordingly displayed his own cleverness by enchanting the boulder into rolling away from King Sisyphus before he reached the top, which ended up consigning Sisyphus to an eternity of useless efforts and unending frustration. Thus it came to pass that pointless or interminable activities are sometimes described as Sisyphean. King Sisyphus was a common subject for ancient writers and was depicted by the painter on the walls of the.

Interpretations [ ]. Sisyphus as a symbol for continuing a senseless war. Johann Vogel: Meditationes emblematicae de restaurata pace Germaniae, 1649 According to the, King Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west. Other scholars regard him as a personification of waves rising and falling, or of the treacherous sea. The 1st-century BC philosopher interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an 'empty thing', being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.

Suggested that he symbolises the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge, and that his punishment is based on a picture in which Sisyphus was represented rolling a huge stone, symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum., in his 1942 essay, saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but Camus concludes 'one must imagine Sisyphus happy' as 'The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.' More recently,, building on the work of, speculates that the origin of the name 'Sisyphos' is onomatopoetic of the continual back-and-forth, susurrant sound ('siss phuss') made by the breath in the nasal passages, situating the mythology of Sisyphus in a far larger context of archaic (see ) trance-inducing techniques related to breath control. The repetitive inhalation–exhalation cycle is described esoterically in the myth as an up–down motion of Sisyphus and his boulder on a hill.

In experiments that test how workers respond when the meaning of their task is diminished, the test condition is referred to as the Sisyphusian condition. The two main conclusions of the experiment are that people work harder when their work seems more meaningful, and that people underestimate the relationship between meaning and motivation.

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