Portuguese - Turkish
Definition of sisifo in Portuguese Turkish dictionary
- sísifo
Italian - English
Definition of sisifo in Italian English dictionary
- Sisyphus
- tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Tartarus, a part of Hades
- in ancient Greek stories, an evil king whose punishment after death was to roll a very large stone to the top of a steep hill. Each time he got near to the top of the hill, the stone rolled down to the bottom, and he had to start again, and he had to continue doing this for ever. A very difficult job that seems impossible to finish is sometimes described as a 'Sisyphean task'. In Greek mythology, the king of Corinth who was punished in Hades by having to roll a huge stone up a hill over and over again. He was the son of Aeolus and the father of Glaucus. When Death came to fetch him, Sisyphus had him chained up so that no one died until Ares came to free Death. Before being taken to the underworld, Sisyphus asked his wife to leave his body unburied. When he reached Hades he was permitted to go back to earth to punish his wife, and he lived to a ripe old age before dying a second time. His trickery resulted in his punishment in Hades
- tragic figure in Greek mythology doomed eternally to roll a boulder up a hill in Hades
- {i} king of Corinth who was condemned for eternity to roll a stone uphill only for it to roll back downhill as he neared the top (Greek Mythology)