King Sisyphus

King Sisyphus
In Greek Mythology  Sisyphus    Greek : Σίσυφος) was a king of Ephyra (now known as Corinth) punished for chronic deceitfulness by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this action forever. Sisyphus was one of the wickedest kings of greek mythology.

Mythology

Sisyphus was son of King Aeolus  of  Thessaly and E narete , and the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of  Corinth ). He was the father of  Glaucus ,  Ornytion <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">,  <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">Almus <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">, and  <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">Thersander <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;"> by the nymph  <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">Merope <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">, the brother of  <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">Salmoneus <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0in;">, and the grandfather of Bellerophon.

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<span style="color:white;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">His major crimes involved cheating death twice. The first where he tricked Thanatos into showing him how the  <span style="color:white;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">chains worked causing Thanatos to be trapped until Ares freed him (Thanatos being trapped displeased Ares since <span style="color:white;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">no one in battle could die). ====<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;">The second time was when he complained to Persephone that his wife Merope did not give him a proper funeral  <span style="color:white;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">and sent Sisyphus' spirit to the living. Even when Sisyphus did not want to return to the Underworld, he was forcefully dragged back there by Hermes. His punishment in The Fields of Punishment was to push a boulder up a  <span style="color:white;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">hill; when it reached the top, the boulder would roll back to the bottom and Sisyphus was condemned to begin again. ====

Demigod Files

<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:white;">He appears in  The Demigod Files in the story titled The Sword of Hades when Percy and Nico ask him advice while Thalia pushes the boulder up the hill. He does not really help them much, but he does say that he helped someone else. He said that he told that other person to go see Melinoe. Therefore, Percy and his friends go to see Melinoe as Sisyphus begs for them to set him free from his punishment for being here was a minor set-back.