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en-wikipedia-org-2694		View source for Sisyphus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	4209	610	65	''Bibliotheca, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=9&highlight=Sisyphus 1.9.3]''</ref><ref name="Homer Iliad VI 152ff">[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' VI 152ff</ref> and [[Minyas (mythology)|Minyas]], founder of [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Orchomenus]], through Almus.<ref name=":1" /> As a punishment for his trickery, Hades made Sisyphus roll a huge boulder endlessly up a steep hill.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng2:11.13-11.13 |title=Homeros, Odyssey, 11.13 |publisher=Perseus Digital Library |access-date=2014-10-09}}</ref><ref name="Odyssey, xi. According to the [[solar theory]], King Sisyphus is the disk of the sun that rises every day in the east and then sinks into the west.<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Sisyphus |volume=25 |page=161}}</ref> Other scholars regard him as a personification of waves rising and falling, or of the treacherous sea.<ref name="eb1911"/> The 1st-century BC [[Epicureanism|Epicurean]] philosopher [[Lucretius]] interprets the myth of Sisyphus as personifying politicians aspiring for political office who are constantly defeated, with the quest for power, in itself an "empty thing", being likened to rolling the boulder up the hill.<ref>''[[De Rerum Natura]]'' III</ref> [[Friedrich Welcker]] suggested that he symbolises the vain struggle of man in the pursuit of knowledge, and [[Salomon Reinach]]<ref>''Revue archéologique'', 1904</ref> that his punishment is based on a picture in which Sisyphus was represented rolling a huge stone [[Acrocorinthus]], symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2694.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2694.txt