There's a kind of dung beetle called Sisyphus, because they like to push big rolly turd-balls around. Really. They do.

1866 Sisyphus is an asteroid. It's named after Sisyphus. But you probably could've figured that out on your own.

Classic rock band, Chicago, released and album called The Stone of Sisyphus. We have it on good authority that Sisyphus listens to it on his iPod as he pushes the real stone up the hill.

Percy Jackson spots Sisyphus from afar in The Lightning Thief and has a convo with him in The Sword of Hades. In the latter, Sisyphus is convinced that one day he'll break out of his eternal punishment.

King Sisyphus holds Death hostage in an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Instead of Thanatos, however, Death is a pretty goddess named Celesta.