The following text was obtained from the Index of
a fabulous online document
The
Book of Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Other Characters of Mythology
by
PJC.
Sisyphus
Sisyphus (very
wise),
Legend has it that when Death came to take him he turned the
tables and captured Death whom he put in chains. No one died while
Death was in chains and it stayed that way until Ares arrived and
freed Death. In the meantime Sisyphus had his wife, Merope, promise to
leave him unburied when he died, a practice clearly against the orders
of the gods.
When Death was
released he claimed Sisyphus and brought
him to the underworld where Sisyphus pointed out the fact that his
body was unburied. The gods allowed him to return to life so that he
could punish his wife. Once back home he lived to a ripe old age
before he died for a second time. His punishment then was to roll a
huge boulder up a hill to the top, but each time he neared the top the
boulder would roll back down the hill, so his task is
never-ending.
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