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Aeolus 'son, Glaucus' father and Bellerophon's grandfather, ancestor of the Lycian kings. Sisyphus, the wisest, most cunning and most corrupt mortal of ancient Greece, ruled Epirus in Argolida. For his wickedness, deceit, and deceit, which he did to men and gods, he was condemned to a severe punishment: , and he, in sweat and dust, again accepts his futile and arduous work.
Later legends also mention the reasons for his suffering. Zeus kidnapped the beautiful nymph Aegina and took her to the island of Enon. Her father, the river god Asop, searched in vain for her all over Greece, until Sisyphus, who saw Zeus taking Aegina from Acrocorinth, revealed the name of her kidnapper. Because of that betrayal, Zeus sent Sisyphus, the god of death Thanatos, but he caught and chained him to deception, and people stopped dying. To restore harmony to nature and punish the arrogant, the father of the gods ordered Ares to release Death. As soon as Ares completed that task, Thanatos dragged Sisyphus into the underworld. This time, too, the cunning king succeeded in outwitting the gods. Before the god of death grabbed him, Sisyphus ordered his wife Meropi to deny him all funeral honors. When he arrived in the realm of the dead, he begged the lords of the underworld, Hades and his wife Persephone, to bring him back to earth for a moment, in order to punish his godless wife. They did not see through his intentions and allowed him to come out into the light of day. Sisyphus did not even think of returning to the dark realm of the dead, but remained among his own and died in old age. Others say that after his death he was severely punished either because he revealed divine secrets to people (as the son of the god Aeolus, lord of all winds, he knew many divine secrets, but in his arrogance he could not keep them) or because of ungodliness, probably because raped Tire, the beautiful daughter of his brother Salmoneus.
According to one legend, the daughter of Tire, Salmoneus and Alcidica, famous for her wisdom, gave birth to her uncle Sisyphus with two twin sons. Salmoneus and Sisyphus, although they were born brothers, hated each other. Sisyphus was looking for a way to kill his brother, but Apollo's prophecy in Delphi announced that he would not succeed, but that the children that his niece Tire would give birth to would do. To destroy Salmoneus, Sisyphus kissed his daughter. Later, when she realized that he did not do it out of love for her, but out of hatred for her father, Tiro, in order to save her father, killed the sons she gave birth to Sisyphus.
Sisyphus, who was as cunning as a god, was also considered the father of another great cunning man - Odysseus. Someone stole cattle from Sisyphus during the night. Not far from him lived Autolik, the son of Hermes and Hion, who was a thief over thieves, because Hermes gave him the power to turn the animals he steals - horned into horny, white into black and vice versa. Thus, at first, Sisyphus could not determine who was stealing from him, although he noticed that his herd was constantly decreasing, while Autolikovo was increasing. To discover the thief, Sisyphus one day marked the hooves of all his cattle. During the night, Autolik, as usual, went to steal, and at dawn, following the tracks on the road, Sisyphus reached Autolik's barns and easily recognized his cattle by the markings on their hooves. Autolik realized that the most cunning man was in front of him. Wanting to get an equally cunning grandson, he subjugated Sisyphus to his daughter Anticlea, and then, already pregnant, he soon married Laertes. Anticlea gave birth to Laertes' son Odysseus, whose real father was Sisyphus.
It was later narrated that Sisyphus was the king of Epirus and the founder of Ephirah (a city later known as Corinth), the son of Aeolus and Enaretus, the brother of Atamant, Salmoneus, Crete, Perrier, Deion and Magnet. In addition to the two sons who bore him Tiro, Minija, Almos, Ornit and Tersandar are mentioned as his children. Some say that the famous sorceress Medea, before she went to Colchis, handed over power over Corinth to Sisyphus, and that Asopus, because of his help in finding Aegina, gave him the source of the Pyrenees on Acrocorinth. When Melikert, Atamant's younger son, jumped into the sea with his mother Inon, the dolphin brought their bodies ashore; Sisyphus buried them, and then, in honor of his cousin, he established the Isthmian games.
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides used the myth of Sisyphus for their plays, which have not been preserved.
Literature:
• Dragoslav Srejović - Aleksandrina Cermanović-Kuzmanović, Recnik grčke i rimske mitologije, drugo izdanje, Beograd: Srpska književna zadruga, 1987
Myth of Sisyphus is so many times mentioned when someone doing job with no purpose and use. When someone do with hard over and over again and he didn't finished that job and didn't take rest from that job and always make cycles.. Endless. This is myth everyone should know and tell everyone who don't know.