CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Aegeus, Pirithous, Minos
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Helping friends harming enemies true quality of hero (seen in all labours not so much in the 1st one) Aegeas and aethra (from troezen) / theseus finds his birth tokens. Aegeas is the guy who took medea in athens. Aegeas is sterile cant have kids of his own. Delphic oracle gives him a strange answer it says, do not open . he goes to his friend famous for his wisdom his friend immediately understands it"s a euphemism for the next time you have sex. He gets aegeas drunk then sends his daughter into his bedroom, she becomes pregnant, then sacrifices to poseidon has sex with poseidon and so theseus has 2 fathers. Aegeas thinks son is a bastard, i only want to meet him if he turns out to be a great man if he can lift rock and uncover tokens he will accept him. Theseus grows up lifts rock decides to journey to.
