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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Kings of Corinth, Thessalian characters in Greek mythology, Condemned souls into Tartarus, Thessalian mythology, Mythological city founders
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Sisyphus  Sifysos  Siphysos  Sisiphus  Sisophys
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(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again WordNet 3.0
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(Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus or Sisyphos was the founder and king of Ephyra. Wikipedia
King of Ephyra in Greek mythology Wikidata
Tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades. Wiktionary
Figure. Wiktionary (translation)
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mythical being
CATEGORY DOMAIN
legend
CHILD
Odysseus
Glaucus
Almus
Ornytion
Sinon
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CULTURE
Greece
DERIVATION
Sisyphean
Sisyphean
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Otto's encyclopedia
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Paulys Realenzyklopädie der klassischen Altertumswissenschaft
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FATHER
Aeolus
MOTHER
Enarete
PRESENT IN WORK
The Myth of Sisyphus
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Wie die Kosaken Olympioniken wurden
Hades
REGION DOMAIN
Greece
SAID TO BE THE SAME AS
Wu Gang
SEX OR GENDER
male
SIBLING
Perieres
SPOUSE
Merope
Tyro
UNMARRIED PARTNER
Anticlea
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Sisyphus
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Sisyphus
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Sisyphus
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Sisyphus
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Sifysos, Siphysos, Sisiphus, Sisophys, Sissyphus, Sisuphos, Sisyfos, Sisyphe, Sisyphean, Sisyphean effort, Sisyphean task, Sisyphian, Sisyphid, Sisyphids, Sisyphos, Siziph, Sysiphus, Sysyphean, Sísyphos, Σίσυφος
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Sisyphos

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