The Myth of Sisyphus
A Corinthian king outwits the gods twice over, chaining death itself and then talking his way back out of the underworld. His sentence is a boulder that must be rolled up a hill and will always roll down again. Patron myth of the absurd.
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- recorded in ↑ The Odyssey
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