PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Existentialism, Albert Camus, Aesop
18 Sep 2018
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According to the greek myth, sisyphus is condemned to roll a rock up to the top of a mountain. Rock rolls down every time he reaches the top. Several stories that explain how he earned his punishment in the underworld: Jupiter (zeus) carried off aegina (mortal woman, daughter of aesopus) Sisyphus witnessed the kidnapping in his home city of corinth. Informed aesopus who had kidnapped aegina on the terms that he would give the citadel at corinth a fresh-water spring. Sisyphus earned himself the wrath of the gods while also earning earthly wealth and happiness for his city. Sisyphus enchained the spirit of death so that during death s imprisonment, no human being died. Sisyphus told his wife not to offer traditional burial rites when he died. When arriving in the underworld, sisyphus complained to pluto (hades) that his wife did not follow as he wished. Granted him permission to return to earth and chastise her.
