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May 16, 2023 · Theseus was the product of an affair between Aegeus, the king of Athens, and Aethra, a princess of Troezen. But in some traditions, the sea god Poseidon slept with Aethra the same night as Aegeus, making Theseus his son instead. Theseus was raised by his mother Aethra in Troezen. The identity of his father was kept secret until Theseus had ...
May 23, 2023 · Theseus was one of fourteen tributes (seven male, seven female) that the Athenians were forced to send regularly as offerings to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster. But Theseus vowed to kill the Minotaur, and Ariadne agreed to help him (after making him swear, according to some accounts, that he would marry her afterwards).
Nov 29, 2022 · Antiope, daughter of Ares, was a great warrior and an Amazon queen. She is best known for being carried off by the Athenian hero Theseus (though whether she went willingly or not varies by the tradition and source). The Amazons did not appreciate losing their queen: in response, they assembled a huge army, sailed across the sea, and invaded ...
Jul 11, 2023 · Hippolyta, daughter of Ares and Otrera, was a queen of the Amazons. She was best known for her girdle, which was said to signify her supremacy among the Amazons. Unfortunately, the hero and strongman Heracles was ordered to steal this girdle for his ninth labor. When Hippolyta and the other warlike Amazons resisted, Heracles fought and killed ...
May 20, 2023 · The "Theseus Mosaic" (300–400 CE), discovered in the floor of a Roman villa at the Loigerfelder near Salzburg, Austria. The battle between Theseus and the Minotaur is pictured at the center of an elaborate Labyrinth. Google Arts and Culture Public Domain. This he planned. of mazey wanderings that deceived the eyes, and labyrinthic passages ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Abduction by Theseus Even at a very young age, Helen’s beauty brought her unwanted attention. When she was still just a child—in some sources as young as seven years old, [35] in others ten [36] or twelve [37] years old—Helen was abducted by the Athenian hero Theseus, who wanted to marry the daughter of a god.
Jan 13, 2023 · General. The Crommyonian Sow was a sow—a wild female pig—of exceptional size, strength, and ferocity. [3] The creature lived near Crommyon, a small town in the region of Corinthia on the Saronic Gulf (though it was originally part of the Megarid). This fearsome sow harassed the area, killing many people before finally being slain by Theseus.
Mar 9, 2023 · Persephone, often known simply as Kore (“Maiden”), was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her mythology tells of how she was abducted by her uncle Hades one day while picking flowers. Demeter, distraught, wandered the entire world in search of her daughter. When Demeter at last located Persephone in the Underworld, she demanded that her ...
Jul 28, 2023 · Theseus and the Athenians. The travels of the Athenian hero Theseus took him to the land of the Amazons as well. In some traditions, he traveled there with Heracles to help him carry off Hippolyta’s girdle, but in most accounts this was a separate adventure.
Oct 4, 2023 · Demophon was a Greek hero who ruled Athens alongside his brother Acamas. Demophon and Acamas were sons of Theseus, the most important of all Athenian heroes; their mother, in many sources, was Theseus’ wife Phaedra, though some made Demophon the son of a woman named Iope. Demophon and Acamas fought bravely in the Trojan War.
