In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the founder and king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth). He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of … 展开

Sisyphus was formerly a Thessalian prince as the son of King Aeolus of Aeolia and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. He was the brother of 展开

According to the solar theory, King Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west. Other scholars … 展开

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2. ^ "Sisyphean". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
3. ^ R. S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, … 展开

R. S. P. Beekes has suggested a pre-Greek origin and a connection with the root of the word sophos (σοφός, "wise"). German 展开

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Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of Corinth). … 展开

• The Myth of Sisyphus, a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus which uses Sisyphus's punishment as a symbol for the absurd.
• Sisyphus: The Myth, a 2021 South Korean TV series, which uses the myth as a symbol for its theme. 展开