Hyginus reports details of the Sisyphus myth.


... (Fab21): Sisyphus impregnated Anticleia, the daughter of Autolycus, before she married Laertes. Thus, the wily Odysseus, according to this version, is the offspring of the trickster Sisyphus, and not of Laertes.

Before his involvement with Anticleia, Sisyphus is said by Hyginus (Fabulae 21) to have outsmarted Autolycus in cattle-theft: anticipating Autolycus' deceit, Sisyphus branded his own livestock and identified them with certainty after Autolycus had stolen them.

At Fab.60, Hyginus reports that Sisyphus was motivated by spite for his brother, Salmoneus, when he seduced his daughter Tyro. Hyginus says that Sisyphus' torture in the Underworld pays for the impious seduction of his neice.

Hyg. Fab., 50:  Sisyphus, rex Corinthiorum, unus e prudentissimis atque dolosissimis itemque ex improbissimis omnium mortalium fuisse dicitur; nam superbia inductus vel deos lacessivit. Cum enim Mors, filia Erebi et Noctis, iussa esset Sisyphum in Tartarum deportare, ei contigit, ut Mortem vinceret et catenis vinciret. Quo factum est, ut nemo mori posset, priusquam Mars Mortem e catenis liberavisset.
Sisyphus autem, cum ei ipsi mors esset obeunda, vi necessitatis neglecta sibi proposuit, ut diutius luce frueretur. Itaque coniugi versute imperavit, ne inferias daret. Ipse autem, cum in Tartaro moraretur, a Plutone precibus petebat, ut sibi liceret ad loca superiora redire coniugis de inferiis admonendae causa. Quae ne eas e memoria depositas teneret, se valde timere. Profecto Pluto precibus indulsit. Sisyphus vero in terram reversus rursus ad inferos descendere noluit; sed multos annos cum coniuge Corinthi vitam beatam agebat.
Neque tum finem impietatis fecit; nam cum Asopus quidam filia a Iove rapta apud Sisyphum quereretur, is rapinae conscius se omnia proditurum promisit, si arci Corinthi aquam comparavisset. Quam proditionem ei causam damnationis fuisse traditum est. In Tartarum deportato ei Iuppiter laborem imposuit talem, ut omnibus viribus summaque contentione saxum in cacumen collis volveret, quod cum ad summum verticem produxisset, rursus deorsum post se revolveretur.

Sisyphus, king of Corinth, is said to have been one of the most wise and afflicted, indeed one of the most impious, of all men. For his arrogance drove him to offend even the gods. When Death, the daughter of Erebos and Night, was bidden to take Sisyphus to the Underworld (Tartarus), he contrived a way to defeat Death and bind her in chains. After this, nobody could die until Mars could come and free Death from her bonds.
Sisyphus, however, though even he himself was required to encounter death, resisted the compulsion and contrived to enjoy life longer. He therefore adroitly ordered his wife not to perform funerary rites for his body. For his own part, when he was tarrying among the Dead, he begged Pluto to allow him to return to the upper world so as to plead with his wife concerning his burial. He stoutly asserted his fear that she was neglecting to take care of his funeral. At length, Pluto acquiesced to his entreaties; but Sisyphus went back to mortality and preferred not to descend again to the Dead; rather, he spent many years living a charmed existence with his wife at Corinth.
Nor was this the limit of his impiety! For, when a certain Asopus was complaining to Sisyphus that his daughter had been seduced by Zeus, Sisyphus vowed that if Asopus would engineer an aqueduct to top of Acrocorinth he would disclose everything he knew about the rape. This disclosure is thought to have been the reason for his condemnation. When he was taken to the Underworld (Tartarus), Jupiter imposed upon Sisyphus such a toil that he would roll with all his strength and with consummate effort a stone to the summit of a hill, and that once he had rolled it to the very top, it would roll back down behind him.   —trans. RTM