Whole effort of a body straining to raise the huge stone, to roll it, and push Nothing is told us about Sisyphus in the underworld. This is the price that must be paid for the passions of this earth. Unspeakable penalty in which the whole being is exerted toward accomplishing Scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life won him that He is, as much through his passions as through his torture. You have already grasped that Sisyphus is theĪbsurd hero. Snatching him from his joys, lead him forcibly back to the underworld, where Mercury came and seized the impudent man by the collar and, Many years more he lived facing theĬurve of the gulf, the sparkling sea, and the smiles of earth. Signs of anger, warnings were of no avail. The sea, he no longer wanted to go back to the infernal darkness. Had seen again the face of this world, enjoyed water and sun, warm stones and Pluto permission to return to earth in order to chastise his wife. There, annoyed by an obedience so contrary to human love, he obtained from It is said that Sisyphus, being near to death, The god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Thunderbolts he preferred the benediction of water. That Æsopus would give water to the citadel of Corinth. He, who knew of the abduction, offered to tell about it on condition
The father was shocked by that disappearance and complained to Ægina, the daughter of Æsopus, was carried To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in regard to Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of Was disposed to practice the profession of highwayman. According to another tradition, however, he
There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the
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