Barr has since made an Art Edition, Limited Edition, and CPU Edition of the game, each riffing on the same five myths of Sisyphus, Tantalus, Prometheus, Danaids and Zeno.

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 ...

The podcast was discussing 20th-century French writer and philosopher Albert Camus, including his early essay titled “The Myth of Sisyphus.” We all know who Sisyphus is: the guy in Greek mythology who ...

Not as the burden of one Sisyphus pushing his or her personal stone up the hill, but as the common burden belonging to all of us, the rough and heavy boulder of our “human condition”? How would it be ...

Celia Rowlson-Hall’s “Sissy” at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, a dance-theater hybrid featuring Marisa Tomei, pokes at the boundaries between art and life.

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 ...

According to Creators, artist Bruce Shapiro based his design off the myth of Sisyphus, in which a man is forced to push a boulder uphill for eternity.

But when it comes to the big goals—global stability, a fair economy, a solution for the climate crisis—it can feel as if you’ve been pushing a boulder up a hill only to see it come rolling ...

In fact, Camus points out that Sisyphus is a hero because he never gave up. He kept trying, pushing that boulder up that mountain again and again. His existence was not mundane because it had purpose.

The Myth of Sisyphus is the perfect metaphor for the Black experience in America. Black Americans have been pushing the boulder of acceptance up the hill of approval since we arrived on the shores ...