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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The good news I suppose is that Sisyphus was pushing a heavy boulder up a hill while I’m just picking up lightweight strips of a 99% guarantee! Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in ...

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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 ...

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.

There’s an old Greek myth about a king named Sisyphus who was condemned by the gods to an eternity of futile labor. His punishment was to push a heavy boulder up a hill, only to watch it tumble ...

"But to write my own story, to have closure no matter the outcome, it’s a gamble I’m willing to take — to climb even if there is no summit," Gao writes.

The philosopher drew the sentence from the Greek myth of Sisyphus, the tragic noble who, after cheating death twice, was punished by the vindictive Gods to the task of pushing a boulder up a hill ...