Apollodorus, Library, book 1, chapter 9, section 3 Apollodorus, Library Sir James George Frazer, Ed. ("Agamemnon", "Hom. Od. 9.1", "denarius") All Search Options [view abbreviations] Home Collections/Texts Perseus Catalog Research Grants Open Source About Help Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position: text: text Librarytext Epitome book: book 1book 2book 3 chapter: chapter 1chapter 2chapter 3chapter 4chapter 5chapter 6chapter 7chapter 8chapter 9 section: section 1section 2section 3section 4section 5section 6section 7section 8section 9section 10section 11section 12section 13section 14section 15section 16section 17section 18section 19section 20section 21section 22section 23section 24section 25section 26section 27section 28 This text is part of: Greek and Roman Materials Search the Perseus Catalog for: Editions/Translations Author Group View text chunked by: text : book : chapter : section volume : page Table of Contents: text Librarybook 1chapter 1section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 chapter 2section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 chapter 3section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 chapter 4section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 chapter 5section 1 section 2 section 3 chapter 6section 1 section 2 section 3 chapter 7section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 section 10 chapter 8section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 chapter 9section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 section 10 section 11 section 12 section 13 section 14 section 15 section 16 section 17 section 18 section 19 section 20 section 21 section 22 section 23 section 24 section 25 section 26 section 27 section 28 book 2chapter 1section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 chapter 2section 1 section 2 chapter 3section 1 section 2 chapter 4section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 section 10 section 11 section 12 chapter 5section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 section 10 section 11 section 12 chapter 6section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 chapter 7section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 chapter 8section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 book 3chapter 1section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 chapter 2section 1 section 2 chapter 3section 1 section 2 chapter 4section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 chapter 5section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 chapter 6section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 chapter 7section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 chapter 8section 1 section 2 chapter 9section 1 section 2 chapter 10section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 section 9 chapter 11section 1 section 2 chapter 12section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 chapter 13section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 chapter 14section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 chapter 15section 1 section 2 section 3 section 4 section 5 section 6 section 7 section 8 chapter 16section 1 section 2 text Epitome Current location in this text. Enter a Perseus citation to go to another section or work. Full search options are on the right side and top of the page. [3] And Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, founded Ephyra, which is now called Corinth,1 and married Merope, daughter of Atlas. They had a son Glaucus, who had by Eurymede a son Bellerophon, who slew the fire breathing Chimera.2 But Sisyphus is punished in Hades by rolling a stone with his hands and head in the effort to heave it over the top; but push it as he will, it rebounds backward.3 This punishment he endures for the sake of Aegina, daughter of Asopus; for when Zeus had secretly carried her off, Sisyphus is said to have betrayed the secret to Asopus, who was looking for her. 1 Compare Hom. Il. 6.152ff.; Paus. 2.1.1. 2 As to Bellerophon and the Chimera, see Apollod. 2.3.1, with the note. 3 As to Sisyphus and his stone, see Hom. Od. 11.593-600. Homer does not say why Sisyphus was thus punished, but Paus. 2.5.1 and the Scholiast on Hom. Il. i.180 agree with Apollodorus as to the crime which incurred this punishment. Hyginus assigns impiety as the cause of his sufferings （Hyginus, Fab. 60）. The picturesque story of this cunning knave, who is said to have laid Death himself by the heels, so that nobody died till Ares released Death and delivered Sisyphus himself into his clutches （Scholiast on Hom. Il. vi.153）, was the theme of plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. See TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 74ff., 251, 572; The Fragments of Sophocles, ed. A. C. Pearson, vol. ii. pp. 184ff. Critias, one of the Thirty Tyrants at Athens, is credited with a play on the same theme, of which a very striking fragment, giving a wholly sceptical view of the origin of the belief in gods, has come down to us. See Sextus Empiricus, ed. Bekker, pp. 402ff.; TGF (Nauck 2nd ed.), pp. 771ff. Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. 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