sisyphus in English

noun
1
the son of Aeolus, punished in Hades for his misdeeds in life by being condemned to the eternal task of rolling a large stone to the top of a hill, from which it always rolled down again.

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1. Well-known members include the genera Scarabaeus and Sisyphus, and Phanaeus vindex.

2. Acknowledging the truth will conquer it; Sisyphus, just like the absurd man, keeps pushing.

3. There wouldn’t be a third time, as the messenger Hermes dragged Sisyphus back to Hades.

4. Over the course of this 44 year ownership SISYPHUS has continually benefitted from care at the best of Boatyards in New England and Canada.

5. Here's Sisyphus as portrayed by Titian, condemned by the gods to push a huge boulder up to the top of the hill.

6. In so doing, the seal of Absurdity becomes less unbearable, while it confers them a ‘Sisyphus’ status that transmutes them into heroes of human resilience.

7. In his classic essay The Myth of Sisyphus, existentialist philosopher Albert Camus compared the punishment to humanity’s futile search for meaning and truth in a meaningless and indifferent universe.

8. Absurdism as a belief system was born of the Existentialist movement when the French philosopher and writer Albert Camus broke from that philosophical line of thought and published his manuscript The Myth of Sisyphus.

9. Aeolus, in Greek mythology, mythical king of Magnesia in Thessaly, the son of Hellen (the eponymous ancestor of the true Greeks, or Hellenes) and father of Sisyphus (the “most crafty of men”)

10. Bellerophon is a grandson of Sisyphus, and came originally from Ephyra (later called Corinth).Having accidentally killed his brother, Bellerophon came to King Proetus 1 and was purified, but at the same time he became this king's subject.

11. Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially Absurd, devoid of purpose.

12. Characters like Europa, Alcyone, Cronus, Sisyphus, Orpheus, Eurydice, Ulysses, Hercules, the river Gods of the Earth or Don Juan and other Mozart characters who thanks to the imagination of Anna Chromy have undergone fiery metamorphoses and admirably manage to reflect the feelings and conflicts of the world in which we live.