From childhood, each of us must have heard the popular expression "Sisyphean labor".What does it mean?Who is Sisyphus and what he had to do?Let's understand this, but at the same time remember the other idioms, come to us from ancient times.
In the myths of ancient Greece meets such a character, like Sisyphus, who was the king of Corinth.Lived Sisyphus fun and clover in his luxurious palace, cunning, deceiving, and dodge.His victims were people of the earth who had no power over him.One day he decided that he can outwit even the gods, for which he later paid and cruel.Its history is as follows.When he realized that he was visited by the god of death Tanat, Sisyphus distracted him by deceit and put chains.Since then, the people have stopped dying, and the gods of the kingdom of shadows were deprived of the gifts that they were given real people for their dead relatives.
about this outrage found Zeus, who was angry and sent the war god Ares for Tanat, demanding that he be released immediately.After the liberation of the death god immediately thrown wicked Sisyphus to his kingdom of shadows.Long awaited by Hades and his wife Persephone sacred gifts from his wife of Sisyphus, but all in vain, since he had already warned her that no gifts for him no one brings.Here again, Sisyphus decided slukavit announcing the gods of the obstinacy of his wife, who allegedly does not want to part with wealth.He promised to deal with his wife Aida, for which he had to briefly visit the land, but he immediately promised to come back.
Terrible Hades as well as before Tanat believed a liar and returned it to the ground.Once home, the guests called Sisyphus, rolling a noble feast.Once again, he dared to make fun of the gods.The gods do not forgive this, but the deceiver would not even think about it.Sisyphus was cast into the realm of shadows and the punishment was terrible punishment.Daily from the foot of a high mountain, he was forced to roll a heavy stone up a huge but, almost reaching the top, the stone broke down.It goes on forever.Sisyphean heavy and useless, but it is the will of the gods.This myth has much to teach us, if you carefully read and how to think.Before over someone laugh or to cheat, remember Sisyphean task - such senseless and heavy.
not one Sisyphus was punished by the gods.Himself the son of Zeus Tantalum there in Hades forced to stand up to his neck in the clean clear water and see the front of a branch of the luxurious fruits.He feels terrible thirst and hunger, but tend to take a sip of water, he saw her go into the ground, and stretching out their hands to the fruits, he realizes that he can not reach them.These flour Tantalus was given for ridicule and pride to the gods.We must keep firmly in mind that before you commit any act, it is necessary to think.And in the work.Holding the job should all plan, that it was not Sisyphean labor (in vain and useless), but really necessary and useful.By the way, the creators of PERPETUM MOBILE or perpetual motion, performed Sisyphean labor, the value of which - a senseless, useless work.They were poorly acquainted with the physical laws and years of inventing something that can not be at all.
phraseologism tantalizing have a completely different meaning.It means closeness of something very desirable, necessary and, at the same time, the inability to have this.We are real tantalizing, when we want the impossible.There is often because we have not weighed goals and its real possibilities, later experiencing mental anguish.Soberly assessing the situation, success in business can be achieved at all times.What matters is that what you did was not useless, otherwise this work will turn into a Sisyphean labor, the value of which you already know.
