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When Sisyphus refused to return to the underworld, he was forcibly dragged back there by Hermes. Once back in Ephyra, the spirit of Sisyphus scolded his wife for not burying his body and giving it a proper funeral as a loving wife should. Then, complaining to Persephone, goddess of the underworld, that this was a sign of his wife's disrespect for him, Sisyphus persuaded her to allow him to return to the upper world. This caused Sisyphus to end up on the shores of the river Styx. īefore Sisyphus died, he had told his wife to throw his naked body into the middle of the public square (purportedly as a test of his wife's love for him). He then had no choice but to release Hades. The gods finally threatened to make life so miserable for Sisyphus that he would wish he were dead. Because of this, sacrifices could not be made to the gods, and those that were old and sick were suffering. As long as Hades was tied up, nobody could die. In some versions, Hades was sent to chain Sisyphus and was chained himself. The exasperated Ares freed Thanatos and turned Sisyphus over to him.

This caused an uproar and Ares, annoyed that his battles had lost their fun because his opponents would not die, intervened. Once Thanatos was bound by the strong chains, no one died on Earth. As Thanatos was granting him his wish, Sisyphus seized the opportunity and trapped Thanatos in the chains instead. Sisyphus slyly asked Thanatos to demonstrate how the chains worked. Sisyphus was curious as to why Charon, whose job it was to guide souls to the underworld, had not appeared on this occasion. Zeus then ordered Thanatos to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus betrayed one of Zeus' secrets by revealing the whereabouts of the Asopid Aegina to her father, the river god Asopus, in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian acropolis. He seduced Salmoneus' daughter Tyro in one of his plots to kill Salmoneus, only for Tyro to slay the children she bore him when she discovered that Sisyphus was planning on using them eventually to dethrone her father. From Homer onward, Sisyphus was famed as the craftiest of men.

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Sisyphus and his brother Salmoneus were known to hate each other, and Sisyphus consulted the oracle of Delphi on just how to kill Salmoneus without incurring any severe consequences for himself. He took pleasure in these killings because they allowed him to maintain his iron-fisted rule. He killed guests and travelers in his palace, a violation of guest-obligations, which fell under Zeus' domain, thus angering the god. King Sisyphus promoted navigation and commerce but was avaricious and deceitful. Sisyphus was the founder and first king of Ephyra (supposedly the original name of Corinth).

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