CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Aegeus, Periphetes, Crommyonian Sow
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Driven out of athens, ees to megara. Beside him is a woman (kind of short), a bit in the ground. This is gaea (half in the ground) Athena is not wearing armour, but we can see a spear. Theseus" birth and early years: aegeus in athens. Doesn"t know what this means: aegeus in troezen to visit a friend (pittheus) Childless (doesn"t have an heir to his reign: pallas has 50 sons (reign will fall to his sons) Oracle--aegeus asks how he can have an heir: told not to undo the wineskin"s mouth until he returns home. Pittheus understands that it means that if aegeus has sex when he is at home, he will have a child. Not to undo the wineskin"s mouth means not to have sex. Sleeps with pittheus" daughter aethra because pittheus gets him drunk. The daughter gets pregnant and has a son named theseus: apollodorus n1 the father, hyginus 37.
