Odysseus reports having seen Sisyphus in the World of the Dead.


καὶ μὴν Σίσυφον εἰσεῖδον κρατέρ’ ἄλγε’ ἔχοντα,
λᾶαν βαστάζοντα πελώριον ἀμφοτέρῃσιν.
ἦ τοι ὁ μὲν σκηριπτόμενος χερσίν τε ποσίν τε (595)
λᾶαν ἄνω ὤθεσκε ποτὶ λόφον· ἀλλ’ ὅτε μέλλοι
ἄκρον ὑπερβαλέειν, τότ’ ἀποστρέψασκε Κραταιΐς·
αὖτις ἔπειτα πέδονδε κυλίνδετο λᾶας ἀναιδής.
αὐτὰρ ὅ γ’ ἂψ ὤσασκε τιταινόμενος, κατὰ δ’ ἱδρὼς
ἔρρεεν ἐκ μελέων, κονίη δ’ ἐκ κρατὸς ὀρώρει. (600)
Simpson contends that "even the Greekless reader can hear the stone rumbling back downhill and coming to a stop in [line 598]."

... I also saw Sisyphos bearing his heavy torture,/
hefting a monstrously big stone with all he had.
Driving it upward with both his hands and his feet,
he was lifting it toward the summit, but when he was about to
tip it over the top, its Weight would wheel it round.
And the ruthless boulder would bound and tumble down again to the plain.*
So yet again he would struggle straining, sweat pouring over his body,
dust rising above his head.

*This line after Fagles.