 In Plato's "Apology", Socrates looks forward to the after-life where he can meet figures such as Sisyphus, who think themselves wise, so that he can question them and find who is wise and who "thinks he is when he is not"

Albert Camus, the French absurdist, wrote an essay entitled "The Myth of Sisyphus", in which he elevates Sisyphus to the status of absurd hero.Franz Kafka repeatedly referred to Sisyphus as a bachelor; Kafkaesque for him were those qualities that brought out the Sisyphus-like qualities in himself.According to Frederick Karl