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Sisyphus

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Fictional Character

The Resume

    Son of King Aeolus of Thessaly
    Founder and first king of Ephyra (later Corinth)
    Condemned to the eternal task of pushing a huge boulder up a narrow hill only to see it roll all the way back down and force him to restart the process
    His son Glaucus eventually ascended to the throne.

Why he might be annoying:

    In violation of the Laws of Xenia, he saw nothing wrong with killing citizens if they threatened his dominance.
    He was greedy and deceptive.
    He regarded himself as a peer of the gods, capable of ratting them out lawfully for their peccadillos; in fact, he considered himself more clever than Zeus, thus challenging the god himself.
    His dying wish was to have his naked body thrown into the middle of the public square by his wife, supposedly to test their love — in reality, a way to complain to Persephone about having been violated.
    When you have more than one anti-virus program installed on your hard drive by accident, does it start up, shut down, and restart the process all over again? That’s similar to a Sisyphean task.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He promoted navigation and commerce.
    His primary reason for getting back at Zeus was revenge for taking away his daughter Aegina the Asopides.
    He was able to trick Hades, the god of the underworld, into handcuffing himself in a bid to end mortality.
    His spirit got back at his wife for refusing to give him a proper funeral.
    Albert Camus’s essay ‘Le mythe de Sisyphe (1942)’ uses him as a measuring stick against the life of absurdity.
    Solar theorists regard him as the disk that is the Sun.

Credit: Cool It All Right?


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 20 Votes: 65.00% Annoying