Sisifo was the son of the god Eolo, and he was king of Corinto, the city he founded, and he was known for his great wisdom when it came to ruling. He ordered the construction of murals around Corinto and mandated that all visitors pay a fee to pass through the city.
He had many rebaos of ganado in his city, and as a neighbor, he had Autólico, who had the permission of the god Hermes, who had given him the power to turn the toros into vacas and change their color from white to red, so that the true owner of the ganado would never find his reses, even if he was right next to him.
Sisifo began to notice that his rebaos were diminishing and began to suspect that something unusual had occurred, so he attempted to rectify the situation by writing in the pezuas of his reses the phrase "Autolico has stolen from me" in a small font, demonstrating that the cow had been robbed.
Faced with such a cunning gesture, Autolycus sent his daughter Anticlea to make Sisyphus fall in love and have children with him to inherit his intelligence and cunning so that he could later profit from the ingenuity of his daughter's children.
But Sisyphus not only showed cunning in this case of the thefts of cattle but also managed to deceive the gods. One day when he was in his palace, Sisyphus saw a great eagle that was carrying a woman in its talons.
In this case, the eagle was an image of the god Zeus himself, who had kidnapped Aegina, the daughter of Asopo, god of the rivers. A short time later, Asopo went to ask Sisyphus for help, knowing his cunning.
Sisyphus told him that he would tell him the name of the one who had kidnapped his daughter if, in exchange, he created a river on the hill where the city of Corinth was growing, to which Asopo agreed.
Sisyphus told him that it had been Zeus, who upon noticing the presence of Asopo turned into a stone so that he could not be detected.
The punishment of Sisyphus
Zeus punished Sisyphus to go to the world of the dead, with his brother, the god Hades, but thanks to his cunning he again escaped from the hands of this god, later from Hermes, who had the power to visit both Olympus and the world of the gods and even Persephone, the wife of Hades.
But finally Hermes managed to catch him and take him to the kingdom of Hades, where he was condemned to climb with a huge rock to the top of a hill and when it was at the top it fell, with what that was the fate of Sisyphus, repeating over and over again the same for eternity.
