The victorious Theseus is represented as seated on the lifeless body of the monster.

In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.

In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".

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.

The " problem of change and identity " is generally explained with the story of the Ship of Theseus:

In other words, is S2 really the " Theseus "?

To get back to the Theseus, the question is: Has the Theseus merely changed a lot, or is the Theseus gone, being replaced by a new ship?

Suppose someone buys all the planks, masts and whatever that is stored in the warehouse, and out of all of those materials, and absolutely no others, he builds a ship according to the same plans that were used to build the ship, christened " the Theseus ".

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.

Philosophers are not interested in the " Ship of Theseus " problem per se, but to a more basic problem which is this: How does one decide that X is the same as Y, where X describes something at one time, and Y describes another thing at a later time?

Applying Leibniz's Law to the Ship of Theseus problem, S2 is the same as S1 if, and only if, S2 and S1 have all the same properties and relations.

Mast # 1 is one of the masts that the original Ship of Theseus had.

Can Leibniz's Law help us decide whether it is S2 or S3 that is the same as the original Theseus?

One popular solution to the problem of the Ship of Theseus is to say that the meaning of " same " depends on what purpose the word is being used for.

One way of thinking about the Ship of Theseus problem is as follows: It is a question that is not receivable because of the mismatch between the domain of the question and the domain of the subject matter it is applied to.

One of the more prominent of these is Theseus and the Minotaur, which was originally published in the book Mad Mazes.

To reconcile the contradictory aspects of his character, as well as to explain how Minos governed Crete over a period spanning so many generations, two kings of the name of Minos were assumed by later poets and rationalizing mythologists, such as Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch — " putting aside the mythological element ", as he claims — in his life of Theseus.

Racine's Phèdre ( 1677 ) features Theseus as well as Hippolytus and the title character.

Theseus likewise appears as a major character in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Knight's Tale.

Thalestris is also the name of a character in Mary Renault's historical novel The King Must Die, set in the time of the mythological Theseus, who lived-if he existed at all-a thousand years or more before Alexander.

Midway into the film, Theseus ' Ship Paradox does come into question when the character of Gina Parker Smith ( Kyra Sedgwick ) shares that she would rather have the new parts removed, a statement that prompts Trace ( Alison Lohman ) to explain that such an attempt would kill the individual because it would mean removing a part of one's brain.

In issue five Campbell spun the character out of that book and into his own comic, the eponymous Bacchus, a book that lasted two issues, focussing the Deadface comic on Joe Theseus, an updated version of Theseus.

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.

In historiography, what is now called speculative fiction has previously been termed " historical invention ", " historical fiction ", and similar names and is extensively noted in literary criticism of the works of William Shakespeare as when he co-locates Athenian Duke Theseus and Amazonian Queen Hippolyta, English fairy Puck, and Roman god Cupid across time and space in the Fairyland of its Merovingian Germanic sovereign Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream ; in mythography it has been termed " mythopoesis " or mythopoeia, " fictional speculation ", the creative design and generation of lore, regarding such works as J. R. R.

In 2001, he provided the voice of " Duke Theseus " in The Children's Midsummer Night's Dream film.

* Theseus, Duke of Athens

Confidential ( 1997 ); Theseus, Duke of Athens, in the 1999 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream ; and corrupt baseball player Eddie Cicotte in Eight Men Out ( 1988 ).

The Mechanicals-sometimes called the Hempen Homespuns-led by Peter Quince, are rehearsing a play, Pyramus and Thisbe ( written by Peter Quince ) in hopes of performing for Duke Theseus on his wedding day and perhaps even being awarded " sixpence a day " for life, quite a handsome reward for these six men.

He is one of the six mechanicals who perform the play which Quince himself authored, " The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruet Death of Pyramus and Thisbe " for the Duke Theseus and his wife Hippolyta at their wedding.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Theseus ( ) was the mythical founder-king of Athens, son of Aethra, and fathered by Aegeus and Poseidon, both of whom Aethra had slept with in one night.

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.

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.