One day, Captain Hercules takes command of the Theseus, and then transfers 18 months later.

Theseus beat Cercyon at wrestling and then killed him instead.

It was not long before the Pallantides ' hopes of succeeding the apparently childless Aegeus would be lost if they did not get rid of Theseus ( the Pallantides were the sons of Pallas and nephews of King Aegeus, who were then living at the royal court in the sanctuary of Delphic Apollo ).

" Theseus then fell suddenly upon the party lying in ambush, and slew them all.

Regardless of these issues of the originality of the ship's structure, for Athenians the preserved ship kept fresh their understanding that Theseus had been an actual, historic figure — which none then doubted — and gave them a tangible connection to their divine providence.

Theseus and Pirithous then traveled to the underworld, the domain of Hades, to kidnap Persephone.

Despite her forceful nature, then, she becomes the object of Theseus ' passion.

While Eteocles ruled Thebes, Polynices visited first king Theseus in Athens, then king Adrastus in Argos, where he married Argea, the king's daughter, after he raped her.

:" Some of the Naxians also have a story of their own, that there were two Minoses and two Ariadnes, one of whom, they say, was married to Dionysos in Naxos and bore him Staphylos and his brother, and the other, of a later time, having been carried off by Theseus and then abandoned by him, came to Naxos, accompanied by a nurse named Korkyne, whose tomb they show ; and that this Ariadne also died there.

Theseus then bashed him in the head and killed him.

The chorus then calls for Theseus, who comes from sacrificing to Poseidon to condemn Creon, telling him, " You have come to a city that practices justice, that sanctions nothing without law.

Oedipus moves to kiss Theseus in gratitude, then draws back, acknowledging that he is still polluted.

Theseus then informs Oedipus that a suppliant has come to the temple of Poseidon and wishes to speak with him ; it is Oedipus ' son Polynices, who has been banished from Thebes by his brother Eteocles.

He led his children and Theseus away, then bathed himself and poured libations, while his daughters grieved.

# If the ship was-in fact-a unitary, physical phenomenon which existed separately from the parts, then even when the parts of the ship were organized in a valid spatiotemporal arrangement to be called " Ship of Theseus " it would be possible that the ship could exist in a different spatiotemporal location and that none of the parts would have anything to do with the ship.

If the shape of the ship were the ship, then you would simultaneously need to see all the parts of the ship-from all angles-in order to identify that the object was the Ship of Theseus.

This makes an impression upon the Eleusinians since they believe that the earth goddess may have sent Theseus but Kerkyon laughs for some reason known only to himself and Persephone, his wife and Queen, and then says that she won't know whom to root for.

Pylas, prince of Megara, is impressed by this feat and Theseus, never one to let an opportunity pass, then shows his political skills by persuading Pylas to ask the Queen's brother to undertake a joint war to eliminate the bandits that infest the Isthmus of Corinth.

As they fight with spears, Theseus throws his spear and misses ; Xanthos then has the advantage with a spear against the sword of Theseus.

The large man slaps Theseus, and then slaps him again after receiving a curt answer to a question.

The man asks for it back, but then Theseus says it was offered to Poseidon and throws it back in.

Asterion tried to do so, but Theseus unknowingly thwarted him and then threw the ring himself.

Theseus sacrifices the King, after promising to care for Ariadne, and then returns to the Bull Court and sleeps.

In the myth of Theseus, the hero joined Heracles in his expedition, or went on a separate expedition later, and was actually the one who had the encounter with Hippolyta.

When members of the state went forth to found a new colony they took with them a brand from the Prytaneum altar to kindle the new fire in the colony ; the fatherless daughters of Aristides, who were regarded as children of the state at Athens, were married from the Prytaneum as from their home ; Thucydides informs us that in the Synoecism of Theseus the Prytanea of all the separate communities were joined in the central Prytaneum of Athens as a symbol of the union ; foreign ambassadors and citizens who had deserved especially well of the state were entertained in the Prytaneum as public guests.

Theseus departed for Crete.

In Crete, both Minos ' daughters, Ariadne and Phaedra fell madly in love with Theseus.

The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan Crete.

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.

On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.

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.

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

Theseus is played by Bob Mathias in the 1960 film Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, and by Tom Hardy in the 2006 film Minotaur.

Theseus had been sent to his overlord Minos of Crete as an offering to the Minotaur.

One legend has it that in the Heroic Age before the Trojan War, Theseus abandoned the princess Ariadne of Crete on this island after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth.

In a few versions of the myth, Dionysus appeared to Theseus as they sailed away from Crete, saying that he had chosen Ariadne as his wife, and demanded that Theseus leave her on Naxos for him ; this has the effect of absolving the Athenian culture-hero of desertion.

* Minotaur, The ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Theseus Against the Minotaur, a. k. a. The Warlord of Crete

* Minotaur, The ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Theseus Against the Minotaur, a. k. a. The Warlord of Crete

For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred bull of Marathon ( the " Marathonian bull ") before he faced the Bull-man, the Minotaur ( Greek for " Bull of Minos "), whom the Greeks imagined as a man with the head of a bull at the center of the labyrinth.

Reclaiming his rightful place as the son of Athenian king Aegeus, Theseus insisted on traveling to Crete to face the dreaded Minotaur.

There are legends, such as that of Theseus and the Minotaur, which indicate that tribute of some sort was collected by Crete from overseas locations, but its legendary history is far different from the wars and warriors of the mainland.

Ariadne, the wife of the god Dionysus in Minoan Crete, possessed the spun thread that led Theseus to the center of the labyrinth and safely out again.

Simon Tidworth in The Quest for Theseus summarises: " Lucas invents another sweetheart for Theseus, Aegle, one of the sacrificial maidens who accompany him to Crete.

According to the story in Plutarch ( Theseus, 18 ), Theseus, before setting out to Crete to slay the Minotaur, repaired to the Delphinium and deposited, on his own behalf and that of his companions on whom the lot had fallen, an offering to Apollo, consisting of a branch of consecrated olive, bound about with white wool ; after which he prayed to the god and set sail.

Theseus moved for a while to Crete and the Pallantides assumed he would not return.