What does Sisyphus mean?
Sisyphus is a figure in Greek mythology. In Homer's epic, Sisyphus is the most resourceful and skillful man in the world. He was the builder and king of Corinth. When Zeus kidnapped Ajina, the daughter of Isop, the river god, and she went to Corinth to look for her daughter, Sisyphus, who knew about it, told him in exchange for a river that flowed all the year round. Because Zeus revealed his secret, Zeus sent a god of death to take him to hell. Unexpectedly, Sisyphus kidnapped a god of death, leaving no one dead in the world for a long time. Until death was rescued, Sisyphus was sent to the underworld. Before being thrown into the underworld, Sisyphus told his wife Merope not to bury his body. When he arrived in the underworld, Sisyphus told Persephone that an unburied person was not qualified to stay in the underworld, and took three days off to return to the sun to deal with his own affairs. Unexpectedly, as soon as Sisyphus saw the beautiful land, he didn't want to go back to hades. Until his death, Sisyphus was sentenced to exile to the other side of hell, where he pushed a heavy stone to a very steep mountain every day, then stepped aside and watched it roll to the foot of the mountain. Sisyphus will repeat this meaningless action forever, without any hope. He has no choice: his only choice is stones and steep mountains.