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.

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a figure who was doomed to roll a boulder for eternity as a punishment from the gods.

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?

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.

Despite being condemned to an eternity of ceaseless toil, Sisyphus continued to push the boulder up the hill, even though it rolled back down each time. Today, many Sisyphus(s) exist in chambers ...

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 ...

Consequently, Zeus dispatched Sisyphus to the underworld, where Hades deemed that Sisyphus would eternally push a boulder up a hill, only to watch the boulder roll down the hill so the workout ...

If Sisyphus were Canadian, he would not be eternally damned to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down before he can reach the top. That would be too easy.

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Pushing It! With Sisyphus A game about a very happy guy and his boulder. The best skills and boons go a long way, but patience is your real BFF Hades is ...