Sisyphus
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In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos is the founder and king of Ephyra. He reveals Zeus's abduction of Aegina to the river god Asopus, thereby incurring Zeus's wrath. His subsequent cheating of de
Persephone supervising Sisyphus in the Underworld, Attic black-figure amphora, c. 530 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen
Sisyphus and Amphiaraus, copy of a mural in the François Tomb, Vulci, made in 4th century BC
Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
A caricature inspired by the myth of Sisyphus to denounce child labor in capitalism, c. 1913
The Myth of Sisyphus
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The Myth of Sisyphus is a 1942 philosophical work by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy o
Sisyphus
…represented rolling a huge stone Acrocorinthus, symbolic of the labour and skill involved in the building of the Sisypheum. Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but Camus concludes "one must imagine Sisyphus happy" as "The struggle itself towards the…
Cover of the first edition