Hermes, the messenger god, eventually dragged Sisyphus back to the underworld, and Zeus soon condemned Sisyphus to the eternal task of rolling a boulder uphill, only for it to roll back down.

President-elect Donald Trump comes to address the crowd during an election night party in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One ...

In the Greek story of Sisyphus, the king was condemned for eternity to move a massive rock up a hill but never reach the summit. Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition ...

One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One must imagine Sisyphus was up late putting his kid to bed and now the boulder thing again? Didn’t we just heave this boulder all the way uphill?

Then Sisyphus is gone, and it’s just me standing on the hill, gazing down at the dark plains below, at the boulder of tasks and obligations and expectations that has once again slipped out of my ...

Once he grasps his fate—“the wild and limited universe of man”—Sisyphus discovers a certain freedom; he gets to determine whether to face the futility of it all with joy or sorrow.

Shaking sand from the tangled thready roots of a clump of clover, I could relate. Given eternity to work with, Sisyphus must have come to know every crag and crack and cranny of his boulder. The ...

Interesting how Sisyphus was a bit silly and deceitful, and as punishment, he has to push a boulder forever. If he were alive today, he would have become president. Well, either way, Sisyphus ...