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ID: 901002557
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002557
Record Type: Character/Person

Sisyphus (Greco-Roman character)

Note: King of Ephyra who cheated death repeatedly, then was punished by Hades by forcing him to roll an immense boulder up a hill repeatedly for eternity.

Names:
Sisyphus (Greco-Roman character) (preferred,English-P,D)
Sisyphos (Greco-Roman character) (English)
Σίσυφος (Greco-Roman character) (Ancient Greek-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Greek iconography> (P)
........<Greek characters> (G)
............Sisyphus (Greco-Roman character) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... character (person by activity)
.....(people by activity, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Sisyphus (Greco-Roman character)
................Getty Museum, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife (2018)
Σίσυφος (Greco-Roman character)
................Getty Museum, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife (2018)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Getty Museum, Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife (2018)
................ Source for image https://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/ancient_underworld/images/home/2_369077EX1_x1024.jpg

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