Zeus, the king of the Greek gods, famously despised a man named Sisyphus. The founder and first king of Ephyra, Sisyphus said to be the "craftiest of all humankind." He first incited Zeus' wrath ...

In the Greek story of Sisyphus, the king was condemned for eternity to move a massive rock up a hill but never reach the summit. Albert Camus famously saw it as a parable of the human condition ...

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In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was a figure who was doomed to roll a boulder for eternity as a punishment from the gods.

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He argued that Sisyphus is no slave but an artist — that his endless alternation of the struggle to rise followed by mingled relief and acceptance of the fall and then the commitment to struggle ...

One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One must imagine Sisyphus was up late putting his kid to bed and now the boulder thing again? The conversation moves fast. Keep up with the Prompt newsletter.

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Every few months, the Californian gathers his racquets, tucks his hair behind his Boss headband, and starts back up a new Grand Slam mountain. The goal, as it has been since he joined the tour a ...

Once he grasps his fate—“the wild and limited universe of man”—Sisyphus discovers a certain freedom; he gets to determine whether to face the futility of it all with joy or sorrow.