It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

According to a version of the Ariadne legend noted by Plutarch, Theseus abandoned Ariadne at Amathousa, where she died giving birth to her child and was buried in a sacred tomb.

He was accompanied by his friend Theseus, who carried off the princess Antiope, sister of Hippolyta, an incident which led to a retaliatory invasion of Attica, in which Antiope perished fighting by the side of Theseus.

According to ancient sources, ( Plutarch Theseus, Pausanias ), Amazon tombs could be found frequently throughout what was once known as the ancient Greek world.

The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

The Theseus was regarded with fervent admiration.

The " goat-man " who gave his name to the Aegean Sea was, next to Poseidon, the father of Theseus, the founder of Athenian institutions and one of the kings of Athens.

Theseus decided to go to Athens and had the choice of going by sea, which was the safe way, or by land, following a dangerous path with thieves and bandits all the way.

It was during one of these latter engagements that Captain Miller of Theseus was killed in an ammunition explosion.

Plutarch mentions that the Athenians saw the phantom of King Theseus, the mythical hero of Athens, leading the army in full battle gear in the charge against the Persians, and indeed he was depicted in the mural of the Stoa Poikile fighting for the Athenians, along with the twelve Olympian gods and other heroes.

According to the Roman poet Ovid ( Fasti v. 379 ), the constellation honors the centaur Chiron, who was tutor to many of the earlier Greek heroes including Heracles ( Hercules ), Theseus, and Jason, the leader of the Argonauts.

When Heracles had pulled Theseus first from his chair, some of his thigh stuck to it ( this explains the supposedly lean thighs of Athenians ), but the earth shook at the attempt to liberate Pirithous, whose desire to have the wife of a god for himself was so insulting he was doomed to stay behind.

Hera was the stepmother and enemy of Heracles, who was named " Hera-famous " in her honor ; Heracles is the hero who, more than even Perseus, Cadmus or Theseus, introduced the Olympian ways in Greece.

In the tragedy, Iolaus, Heracles ' old comrade, and his children, Macaria and her brothers and sisters have hidden from Eurystheus in Athens, which was ruled by King Demophon ; as the first scene makes clear, their expectation is that the blood relationship of the kings with Heracles and their father's past indebtedness to Theseus, will finally provide them sanctuary.

: In ancient times, there was a ship, called the " Theseus " after its famous former owner.

In other words, is this recently-constructed ship, the same ship as the ship originally called the " Theseus ", considering that S3 was built out of the same materials, and according to the same plans as S1.

If, supposing it turns out that the original Ship of Theseus, S1, was actually stolen property, and the rightful owner demands its return, should the police give him S2 or S3?

Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a skein of thread, literally the " clew ", or " clue ", so he could find his way out again.

The genus name Pandion is after the mythical Greek king Pandion of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, who was transformed into an eagle.

According to tradition, Attica comprised twelve small communities during the reign of Cecrops, the legendary Ionian king of Attica, and these were later incorporated in an Athenian state during the reign Theseus, the mythical king of Athens.

In Greek mythology, Mount Pelion ( which took its name from the mythical king Peleus, father of Achilles ) was the homeland of Chiron the Centaur, tutor of many ancient Greek heroes, such as Jason, Achilles, Theseus and Heracles.

This rule was followed throughout Europe for centuries: usually, princes and members of the nobility, such as Andreas Gryphius ' Carolus Stuardus ( i. e. King Charles I of England ), Jean Racine's Phèdre ( the wife of Theseus, a mythical king of Athens ) or William Shakespeare's King Lear, serve as tragic protagonists.

There is a contrast between the mythical and historical events portrayed: depictions of Theseus ' victory over the Amazonians and the Fall of Troy are juxtaposed sharply with the portrayal of the historic Battle of Oenoe ( conjectured to have occurred in the pentecontaetia at Oenoe, Attica on the Thriasian Plain near Eleutherae ), the first important Athenian victory over Sparta, and the Battle of Marathon.

Athenians of the Classical age were aware that the festival was of great antiquity ; Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus, but this is no longer considered a dependable sign that the festival had been celebrated in the Minoan period.

Walter Burkert points out that the mythic reflection of this is the Attic founder-king Theseus ' release of Ariadne to Dionysus

Arrival or departure of a young warrior or hero, maybe Theseus arriving at Athens and being recognized because of his sword by Aegeus.

Young, brave and ambitious, Theseus decided to go to Athens by land.

The above lines are of Virgil taunting the Minotaur in order to distract him, and reminding the Minotaur that he was killed by Theseus the Duke of Athens, and instructed by the monster's " sister " Ariadne.

Another approach emphasizes less putting the opponent in an inverted vertical position and more the throw ; it is shown in a sculpture in the metōpē ( μετώπη ) of the Hephaisteion in Athens, where Theseus is depicted heaving Kerkyōn.

To journey to Athens, Theseus could choose to go by sea ( which was the safe way ) or by land, following a dangerous path around the Saronic Gulf, where he would encounter a string of six entrances to the Underworld, each guarded by a chthonic enemy.

When Theseus arrived at Athens, he did not reveal his true identity immediately.

When Theseus returned victorious to Athens, where he sacrificed the Bull, Medea tried to poison him.

According to Plutarch's Life of Theseus, the ship Theseus used on his return from Crete to Athens was kept in the Athenian harbor as a memorial for several centuries.

The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place ...

When Theseus returned to Athens, he found that the Dioscuri had taken Helen and Aethra to Sparta.

After boarding the ship, Theseus left for Athens, claiming Hippolyta as his bride.

Both statements are inconsistent with Medea being Aegeus ' wife by the time Theseus first came to Athens.

Lycomedes of the island of Skyros threw Theseus off a cliff after he had lost popularity in Athens.

In 475 BC, in response to an oracle, Cimon of Athens, having conquered Skyros for the Athenians, identified as the remains of Theseus " a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword.

Theseus is a prominent character as the Duke of Athens in William Shakespeare's plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Mary Renault's The King Must Die ( 1958 ) is a dramatic retelling of the Theseus legend through the return from Crete to Athens.

IX " Theseus: making the new Athens " ( 1994 ), pp. 203 – 222.

* Walker, Henry J., Theseus and Athens, Oxford University Press ( US 1995 ).

* 1191 BC: Menestheus, legendary King of Athens, dies during the Trojan War after a reign of 23 years and is succeeded by his nephew Demophon, a son of Theseus.