 When King Sisyphus refused to return to the Underworld, he was forcibly dragged back there by Hermes.In another version of the myth, Persephone was tricked by Sisyphus that he had been conducted to Tartarus by mistake, and so she ordered that he be released.In "Philoctetes" by Sophocles, there is a reference to the father of Odysseus (rumoured to have been Sisyphus, and not Laërtes, whom we know as the father in the "Odyssey") upon having returned from the dead.