…After his death, he was cast into hell and ordered to push a boulder to the top of a mountain, but the boulder would always roll back down whenever he reached the top, so he would endure this futile toil forever. This famous story was already told in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey, but later myth-makers explained the reason for Sisyphus' punishment as being because he had revealed that Zeus had kidnapped the daughter of the river god Asopos, incurring Zeus' wrath and sending him to the underworld, but he had managed to deceive Hades, the king of the underworld, and return to earth to live a long life. Some writers from the 4th century BC onwards also claimed that Sisyphus was Odysseus' true father. … *Some of the terminology explanations that mention "Asopos" are listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…死後,地獄に落とされ,大石を山頂に押し上げるよう命じられたが,石はいま一息というところで必ずまた転がり落ちるため,彼は永遠に空しい労苦を繰り返しているという。この有名な話はすでにホメロスの叙事詩《オデュッセイア》に語られているが,シシュフォスが受けた刑罰の原因に関して後代の神話作者たちは,河神アソポスAsōposの娘の誘拐犯人をゼウスと明かしたことにより,ゼウスの怒りを買って冥府へ送られたシシュフォスが,冥府の王ハデスをまんまとだまし,再び地上に戻って長生きをしたためと説明した。また前4世紀以後の著述家の中には,シシュフォスこそオデュッセウスの真の父親と唱える者があった。… ※「アソポス」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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