Facts about Sisyphus

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   Zeus punished Sisyphus partly because he revealed the god's abduction of the nymph Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus.

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   Albert Camus famously used Sisyphus as an emblem of the absurd human condition in his 1942 philosophical essay The Myth of Sisyphus.

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   In Greek myth, Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra, the city later known as Corinth.

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   The cunning king Sisyphus of Corinth is said to have cheated death twice, once by trapping Thanatos in chains so no mortals could die.

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   As punishment for his deceitfulness, Sisyphus was condemned in Tartarus to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity, only to watch it roll back down.

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