Sisyphus, son of Aeolus of Thessaly and Enarete, was the founder and the first ruler of Ephyra. He and his brother, Salmoneus, hated each other. Sisyphus asked for the Oracle of Delphi to aid him to kill his brother with out having to incur the consequences. Thus, from the beginning, he was a man imbued with craftiness. He lived a life of guile, and had to suffer for it in the end.