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I've never entirely understood the myth of Sisyphus. You'd think that, after you realize that you can never succeed in rolling the boulder up the hill, you'd just stop trying. And I'd never heard any version of the myth where there's anything motivating him to DO it (like wolves that will chew on him if he stops trying, or whatever).

At least Tantalus makes sense - if he refused to play the game, he was still going to be eternally thirsty and hungry. There's no real way to stop the torment. With Sisyphus, there's no real reason for him to torment himself at all, but apparently he does it anyway?

Atlas is sort of a grey area between those two extremes - it's never actually established why he can't just say "Ehh, screw you" and put the sky down. Presumably if he did Zeus would show up and kick him in the dick, so doing what he's supposed to is somehow preferable to the alternative, but I don't think it's ever explicitly stated.


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