Noted feminist Simone de Beauvoir once wrote: “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework with its repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, ...

isyphus, the king of Ephyra, was renowned in Greek mythology for his ingenuity; indeed, so clever was he that he cheated death twice, angering the gods. They took their revenge by condemning Sisyphus ...

Sisyphus is a tragic figure of ancient Greek myth, cursed to forever be pushing a boulder up a mountain only to see it return to the bottom every night. The futility and absurdity of his daily pursuit ...

Albert Camus, a French philosopher, once wrote about Sisyphus, a king condemned by the Greek gods to push a boulder up a hill. Only, to his torment, the boulder rolled back down every time it reached ...