Sisyphus had been an avaricious King of Corinth. He tricked the gods and even death as long as he could. After death he was punished: throughout eternity he was required to roll a marble block to the top of a hill only to have it plunge back down just as it reached the crest.
Sisyphus, the King of Corinth drew upon himself the wrath of the King of the gods and lord of the sky, Zeus. One day, he had seen a large eagle carrying a maiden to an island nearby. When Asopus, the river-god came by and informed him that his daughter Aegina had been carried away, he told him of what he had seen, as Zeus' animal is the eagle. When he died, he was punished by being made to eternally roll a rock uphill (which rolled back down upon him).
Sisyphus was the first king of Corinth and Bellerophon's grandfather. He is most famous for being a trickster and his ultimate punishment in Tartarus: to endless push a boulder up a hill.
The Myth of Sisyphus was created in 1942.
The first known story about Sisyphus was written by the ancient Greek historian, Hesiod, in his work "Theogony." However, it was the ancient Greek philosopher, Albert Camus, who popularized the myth of Sisyphus in his essay "The Myth of Sisyphus."
Not in Greek myth.
Zeus of Greek myth.
Beware of Greeks.
Unknown, Greek myth does not say.
The main characters in the myth of Sisyphus are Sisyphus himself, the cunning and deceitful king of Corinth, and Zeus, the king of the gods in Greek mythology. Sisyphus is condemned by Zeus to an eternity of rolling a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down each time he nears the top.
No, Sisyphus was the son of the mortals Aeolus and Enarete.
Sisyphus was not immortal, but a mortal king of Ephyra.
Its sisyphus, both greek and roman
Sisyphus was not worshipped; he was not a ancient Greek god.
Sisyphus betrayed Zeus to Asopus.