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

Sisyphus appears in several Greek myths, though today he is often associated with just one. In the famous legend, he is punished by Zeus for cheating death and condemned to endlessly push a ...

In the Greek story of Sisyphus, the king was condemned for eternity to move a massive rock up a hill but never reach the ...

But if Sisyphus understands that there is no future, that any effort is futile, why does he continue to climb the hill for the rest of eternity? What’s the point? Why bother?

Sisyphus: The Myth Season 1 is a fantasy-mystery drama that centers on Han Tae-sul, a gifted engineer who sets out to discover the reason behind his elder brother’s demise, and Kang Seo-hae, a ...

One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” wrote Camus. “His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.” Shaking sand from the tangled thready roots of a clump of clover, I could relate. Given eternity to ...

Sisyphus stumbles on a loose rock and slips down the hill. He catches himself, then keeps going. The weekend comes and goes; of course there are tasks that remain unfinished.

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.