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Sisyphus

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos (/ˈsɪsɪfəs/ ⓘ; Ancient Greek: Σίσυφος, romanized: Sísyphos) is 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 death earns him eternal punishment in the underworld, once he dies of old…

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Sisyphus

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related to Literary interpretations · 32
Sisyphus → According, After, Albert Camus, Book VI, Book XI, Camus, Eurydice, Franz Kafka, Frederick Karl, French, Hades, Hollis Robbins, Homer, Iliad, In Plato's Apology, Kafka's, Kafkaesque, Latin, Odyssey, Orpheus
related to Family · 28
Sisyphus → Aeolia, Alcyone, Almus, Another, Athamas, Bellerophon, Calyce, Canace, Cretheus, Deimachus, Deioneus, Enarete, Glaucus, He, King Aeolus, Magnes, Minyas, Orchomenus, Ornytion, Perieres
related to Interpretations · 20
Sisyphus → According, Acrocorinthus, Albert Camus, BC Epicurean, Camus, Friedrich Welcker, Georges Dumézil, In, King Sisyphus, Lucretius, Myth, Nigro Sansonese, Other, Proto-Indo-European, Salomon Reinach, Sisypheum, Sisyphusian, The, The Body, The Myth
related to Cheating death · 11
Sisyphus → Ares, Asopid Aegina, Asopus, But Sisyphus, Corinthian, Earth, Once Thanatos, Tartarus, Thanatos, Zeus, Zeus's
related to Punishment in the underworld · 10
Sisyphus → As, Delphi, Hades, Lesche, Polygnotus, Sisyphean, Tartarus, The, Thus, Zeus
related to Reign · 10
Sisyphus → Corinth, Ephyra, Games, In, Isthmian Games, Isthmus, Melicertes, Pausanias, Pindar, While
see also · 10
Sisyphus → Cornish, Dozmary Pool, Gang, Gwenor CoveTantalus, Hades, Indian, MoonAbsurdism, Naranath Bhranthan, Sisyphus's, Tregeagle
related to Conflict with Salmoneus · 7
Sisyphus → Delphi, From Homer, He, Oracle, Salmoneus, Salmoneus's, Tyro
related to External links · 2
Sisyphus → Encyclopædia Britannica, New International Encyclopedia
is a · 1
Sisyphus → disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west

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Sisyphusis adisk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west0.90text
Sisyphusinstance ofSocrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures0.80text
who think themselves wiseinstance ofSocrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures0.80text
so that he can question theminstance ofSocrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures0.80text
find who is wiseinstance ofSocrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures0.80text
whoinstance ofSocrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures0.80text
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathZeus's0.60section
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathAsopid Aegina0.60section
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathAsopus0.60section
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathCorinthian0.60section
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathZeus0.60section
Sisyphusrelated to Cheating deathThanatos0.60section

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