On Friday, 3 June 2016 at 05:51:02 UTC, Pie? wrote:
Also, Sisyphus must not have been too crafty! If he spend all that time digging out the hill then it would have been lower in gravity and he wouldn't have to carry it for eternity... just give it a nudge and it would roll down. Hen he could use all that dirt to build a barricade to keep the boulder from rolling away(unless it could magically go through the dirt).
I think a part of the point of the myth is that everything is returned to its previous state over night, including earthworks.
