Classical Studies 2200 Lecture 10: Week 10
15 Dec 2016
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A local hero who was much worshipped by the people in athens. Whatever is said about theseus is like saying things about athens. Consults the oracle at delphi to ask how to have a son but doesn"t know how to interpret what it says. Ill meet pittheus and he"ll tell me what to do. Ill let auegues sleep with aethra and she goes down to the seashore to bathe and. Poseidon sees her and also mates with her. His mother has said to him: the road is dangerous, lots of evil people, so take a ship but theseus says no and decides to make the road safe. He performs a series of exploits that make him heroic but are very localized. Minos marries a women name pasiphae (shining in all directions: they have two daughters, ariadne and phaedra. Medea also comes from this family in colchis: she actually fled to asia minor.
