Σίσυφος

Σίσῠφος [ῑ], ὁ,

• Sisyphus, Il. 6.153, Od. 11.593: prov., πλείονα δʼ εἰδείης Σισύφου Thgn. 702; μηχαναὶ Σισύφου Ar. Ach. 391; nickname of the Spartan Dercyllidas, X. HG 3.1.8:—Adj. Σῑσύφειος, α, ον, E. Med. 405, etc.; Σισυφία χθών, i.e. Corinth, Epigr. ap. Paus. 5.2.5; Σισυφὶς ἀκτή, αἶα, Theoc. 22.158, AP 7.354 (Gaet.); Σισύφειον, τό, temple of S., D.S. 20.103, Str. 8.6.21.

Σίσυφος

• (κέρδιστος ἀνδρῶν).
• Patronymic Αἰολίδης.
• King of Ephyra-2.
• Father of Glaucus-1 Il. 6.153, 154: tormented in the Shades Od. 11.593.

Σῑσῠφος son of Aiolos; king of Korinth, founder by one account of the Isthmian games.

• 1Σίσυφον μὲν πυκνότατον παλάμαις ὡς θεόν O. 13.52 Αἰολίδαν δὲ Σίσυφον κέλοντο (sc. αἱ Νηρείδες) ᾧ παιδὶ τηλέφαντον ὄρσαι γέρας φθιμένῳ Μελικέρτᾳ (sc. ἄγειν τὰ Ἴσθμια) fr. 5.

Σίσυφος (redup. from σοφός): Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, father of Glaucus, and founder of Ephyra (Corinth), renowned for craft and wiles, Il. 6.153ff. He was punished in Hades by rolling the ‘resulting’ stone up-hill, Od. 11.593.

Σίσυφος Σί_σῠφος, ου, Prob. a redupl. form of σοφός (with Aeolic υ for ο the crafty.)

• a king of Corinth, noted as the craftiest of men, punished in the shades below, Hom., etc.