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SIS′YPHUS (Lat., from Gk. Σίσυφος). In 
Greek legend, the son of Æolus and Enarete.
According to the earlier myth he was married to 
Merope, but later tradition made him the father 
of Odysseus by Anticlea. From this the patronymic
Sisyphides was applied to the hero of the 
Odyssey. He is said to have been the founder 
and King of Ephyra, afterwards Corinth, and
became notorious as a fraudulent, avaricious, and 
wicked ruler. For this wickedness during life 
he was punished in the lower world by being
condemned to roll from the bottom to the summit of 
a hill an immense boulder which, whenever it 
reached the top, rolled down again, and
compelled him to begin his task anew.









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