Who was the character in Greek mythology forced to push a rock up a hill for eternity?
According to the massive Greek Mythology Link site in the Yahoo! Greek Mythology category, Sisyphus was a very crafty king who defied the gods and tried to elude death. His punishment in Hades was to endlessly roll a huge stone up a hill — as soon as it reached the top, it would fall back to the bottom. The poor king spawned his own adjective, Sisyphean, meaning an impossible task. First, Sisyphus angered the gods by telling Asopus that Zeus had carried off his daughter, Aegina. Then when Death came for Sisyphus, the king chained Death up, thus temporarily granting immortality to all of humanity (until the god Ares freed Death). Before Sisyphus was finally brought down to the underworld, he instructed
