Sisyphus
Σίσυφος
A king who cheated death twice — and pushes a boulder forever for it.
He chained up Thanatos, the god of death, so that for a while no one could die.
Even after being dragged to the underworld, he had instructed his wife to skip his funeral rites — and used that as his excuse to return.
His punishment: rolling a boulder to the top of a hill. Each time it nears the summit, it rolls back down.
Camus read in this punishment the human being who defies the absurd — "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
SourcesHomer, Odyssey