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Punishment of Sisyphus

Myth & story

The Hellenic underworld episode of the king condemned to roll a stone forever. Not every endless-labor proverb, and not tantalus’s hunger alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Punishment of Sisyphus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names Sisyphus among Corinthian founder and underworld-punishment speech. A named Sisyphus punishment telling in that periegesis, not every labor dump and not Corinth as a missing city entity.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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