The founder of the city of Corinth, Sisyphus was guilty of several transgression, including killing guest and seducing his own niece.Banished to the underworld for his deeds, he tried to cheat death, first by confining Thanatos, the god of mortality, but without success. Then he instructed his wife not to carry out the burial rites for him. When Hades sent him back to earth to ensure that the rites were performed Sisyphus refused to return to the underworld.
For his presumption in trying ti turn himself into an immortal, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a heavy boulder up hill.When the rock reached the hilltop , it rolled back down again, so Sisyphus had to keep repeating his task eternally.
SISYPHUS PUSHING A ROCK
For artist and writers in both ancient and modern times, Sisyphus and his terrible punishment became the iconic image of hard, endless, and pointless tasks.
THANATOS
The sun of night and darkness, Thanatos was a much feared god but rarely seen in the myths of greece.
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