SISYPHUS, THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE! #BLOGCHATTERA2Z
iStock Sisyphus, son of Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete, was the founder and the first ruler of Ephyra. He and his brother, Salmoneus, hated each other. Sisyphus asked for the Oracle of Delphi to aid him to kill his brother with out having to incur the consequences. Thus, from the beginning, he was a man imbued with craftiness. He lived a life of guile, and had to suffer for it in the end. Sisyphus’ sin was that he would beguile and kill travellers who stayed with him, a sin that went against Zeus’ code of hospitality. He went even further when he betrayed Zeus’ secret by revealing the whereabouts of Aegina, the Asopid, to her father Asopus, the river god, in return for a permanent flowing spring in the Corinth area. Zeus, who was in love with Aegina, was enraged and ordered Thanatos, the God of Death, to imprison Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus proved his craftiness further. He instructed his wife, Merope, to throw his corpse in the middle of the street without any ceremony. When ...