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The king returned to Corinth and resumed his life. He began to boast that he was even smarter than the king of the Gods and his arrogance knew no bounds. The king began to terrorize the populace of Corinth and killed anyone who opposed him. However, he had offended the Olympian gods one too many times. Zeus was no longer prepared to tolerate Sisyphus, and in one account, he ordered Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods, to haul him back to Tartarus.<ref>Pausanias, vi</ref>
====The fiendish punishment of Why was Sisyphus==punished by the Gods?==
[[File: Sisyphus three.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Albert Camus]]
The King of Corinth had shown hubris against the gods, and Zeus could not tolerate this. A human who refused to die was attempting to act and behave like a God. The King of the Olympians could not allow humans to cheat death. This would be against the cosmic order. Zeus decided to punish Sisyphus ingeniously. The Olympian ordered Hades to drag Sisyphus down to Tartarus and ordained that he never again saw the light. This was not enough for the repeated crimes and offenses of the Corinthian King.