Charon taking souls across the river Styx. To escape Asopus, Zeus turned into a rock, and also changed the girl to the island of Aegina. Zeus was furious but too busy to punish Sisyphus at the time. He relented, and Sisyphus pointed, “Over there!” Asopus looked in that direction and found who other than Zeus carrying off a laughing water nymph.

If you could bring a freshwater spring to my city, I will tell you where she is.” Asopus did not want to give in–his water was very valuable, but he also missed his dear daughter. Sisyphus told him, “I know where your daughter is. He noticed a river god, Asopus, looking for his daughter. One such soul was King Sisyphus, who had been cruel all his life, constantly trying to outsmart the gods. The spirits who had lived bad lives in the world above were horribly punished in the world of the dead, and a few were so evil that they were directly punished by Zeus himself. But more often they thought of him as the god of the bleak world of the dead so they imagined that he was dark and grim in appearance, and they feared him more than they did the other gods, although he was not the one to punish those who were corrupt. They believed that he helped make the seeds sprout and push their leaves above the surface of the earth, and that he gave men the gold and silver which they dug out of their mines. Hades, the god of the underworld, was also a brother of Zeus but the Greeks did not think of him as being bright and beautiful like the other gods.

Adapted from Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men by Caroline H.

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