Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

Sisyphus When Hades shows Timuron's fate should Hercules not rescue him, rolling a boulder up a hill in Tartarus for all eternity, Hades is showing the punishment that Greek mythology actually assigned to Sisyphus. However, according to the myth before Sisyphus died he had told his wife that when he was dead she was not to offer the usual sacrifice. Once in the Underworld he complained that his wife was neglecting him and persuaded Persephone to allow him to go back to the upper world and ask his wife to perform her duty. When Sisyphus got back to Corinth he refused to return, and was eventually carried back to the underworld by Hermes. Sisyphus also tells Hercules in this episode that he is being called to the Other Side early as punishment for revealing one of Zeus' love affairs with one of Sisyphus' nobleman's daughters. In the myth it isn't a human girl, but Aegina, the daughter of the River God Asopus that Zeus was trying to seduce, and her father that Sisyphus told.