Associations to the word «Sisyphus»
Noun
Wiktionary
SISYPHUS, proper noun. Tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades.
Dictionary definition
SISYPHUS, noun. (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.
Wise words
Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you
want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's
gone, gone forever.