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Titian: Sisyphus
Titian: Sisyphus Sisyphus, oil on canvas by Titian, 1548–49; in the Prado Museum, Madrid.

Sisyphus

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Sisyphus, In Homer’s Iliad, Book VI, Sisyphus, living at Ephyre (later Corinth), was the son of Aeolus (eponymous ancestor of the Aeolians) and the father of Glaucus. In post-Homeric times he was called the father of Odysseus through his seduction of Anticleia. Both men were characterized as cunning. Sisyphus was the reputed founder of the Isthmian Games, a festival of athletic and musical competitions in honour of the sea god Poseidon. Later legend related that...

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