He was punished for this in the underworld. To the celestial thunderbolts he preferred the benediction of water. He, who knew of the abduction, offered to tell about it on condition that Esopus would give water to the citadel of Corinth. The father was shocked by that disappearance and complained to Sisyphus. Egina, the daughter of Esopus, was carried off by Jupiter. To begin with, he is accused of a certain levity in Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of According to another tradition, however, he was disposed to If one believes Homer, Sisyphus was the wisest and most prudent of They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. Albert Camus: THE MYTH OF SISYPHUS The Myth Of Sisyphus
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