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 ...

Sisyphus: The Myth Season 1 is a fantasy-mystery drama that centers on Han Tae-sul, a gifted engineer who sets out to discover the reason behind his elder brother’s demise, and Kang Seo-hae, a ...

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

Sisyphus stumbles on a loose rock and slips down the hill. He catches himself, then keeps going. The weekend comes and goes; of course there are tasks that remain unfinished.

One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” wrote Camus. “His fate belongs to him. His rock is his thing.” Shaking sand from the tangled thready roots of a clump of clover, I could relate. Given eternity to ...

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.

President-elect Donald Trump comes to address the crowd during an election night party in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) One must imagine Sisyphus exhausted. One ...