Sisyphus

Sisyphus, in Greek Mythology, son of Æolus, father of Glaucus, and husband of the Pleiad Merope; only in post-Homeric legends, from his cunning, the father of Odysseus. He is said to have been founder and king of Ephyræ, afterwards Corinth, and both he and his whole house were notorious for their wickedness. Homer does not give the reason for his punishment in the lower world, but some later accounts make it his disclosure to the river-god Asopus that it was Zeus who had carried off his daughter; others, his wholesale robbery and murder of travellers. He was condemned to roll an immense stone from the bottom to the summit of a hill, which, whenever it reached the top, rolled down again, and so the task of Sisyphus had to be begun anew.