Sentenced to forever roll a boulder up a hill, Sisyphus was required to physically train for all eternity!
The ancient greeks idolized a man’s muscular thigh as the most masculine body part to have developed.
Wedding proposals were known to be refused on the premise of the man not being found masculine enough, for he lacked what was deemed a proper level of sturdy thigh development.
Slaves were used at labor/punishment similar to Sisyphus’s task, developed the ideal thigh of the time, causing with jealousy and possibly emulation the free greeks to go about getting the same thigh development.
A boulder was the ancient prowler sled or football/rugby drive sled!
No vehicle in neutral, a boulder would be rolled/pushed around a sand track!
In a way being made to what in the eye’s of the time was an eternal leg day gave Sisyphus a blessing in the eyes of an ancient greek gym bro.
He was forever working on his thighs!
Like Tom Platz in his respective time, no one would out develop Sisyphus’s thighs.
Put it this way :
He was made to task something which caused jealousy in the trainees of the day, which too made him the most marriageable in myth to the day’s maiden, likely causing even more jealousy to an ancient greek hardgainer – one who the Spartans would’ve exposed in infancy, but being born in another city state grew up scrawny probably being a pupil of one orator or another, while jealous of the athletes and phalanxmen.
He was sentenced to bodybuild!
His task would’ve been far worse had he been required to roll a tiny pebble up the hill while crawling on all fours.
That, robbing him of leg development, with the humiliation of crawling on his knees for all eternity…that would’ve been a sentence of tedium really worth the term sisyphean task!
Persistence & Tenacity