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Greek mythology: a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
- There is a city in the heart of Argos, pasture land of horses, called Ephyra, where Sisyphus lived, who was the craftiest of all mankind.Book 6 (29% in)
There are no more uses of "Sisyphus" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Butler).
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