Theseus | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Theseus


00:01:51 1 Mythology
00:02:00 1.1 Birth and early years
00:04:11 1.2 The Six Labours
00:06:09 1.3 Medea and the Marathonian Bull, Androgeus and the Pallantides
00:08:29 1.4 Theseus and the Minotaur
00:11:44 1.5 Ship of Theseus
00:13:18 1.6 Theseus and Pirithous
00:14:37 1.7 The abduction of Persephone and encounter with Hades
00:16:18 1.8 Phaedra and Hippolytus
00:18:18 1.9 Other stories and his death
00:19:34 2 Adaptations of the myth
00:19:43 2.1 Literature
00:23:02 2.2 Opera, film and television
00:25:49 3 Notes
00:25:58 4 Sources
00:27:40 5 External links



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Theseus (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: Θησεύς [tʰɛːsěu̯s]) was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. Like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles, Theseus battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order: “This was a major cultural transition, like the making of the new Olympia by Hercules” (Ruck & Staples, p. 204).Theseus was a founding hero for the Athenians in the same way that Heracles was the founding hero for the Dorians. The Athenians regarded Theseus as a great reformer; his name comes from the same root as θεσμός (thesmos), Greek for "The Gathering". The myths surrounding Theseus – his journeys, exploits, and family – have provided material for fiction throughout the ages.
Theseus was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together") – the political unification of Attica under Athens – represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing ogres and monstrous beasts. Because he was the unifying king, Theseus built and occupied a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis that may have been similar to the palace that was excavated in Mycenae. Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos ("Aphrodite of all the People") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.
Plutarch's Life of Theseus (a literalistic biography) makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus' escape, and the love of Ariadne for Theseus. Plutarch's sources, not all of whose texts have survived independently, included Pherecydes (mid-fifth century BCE), Demon (c. 400 BCE), Philochorus, and Cleidemus (both fourth century BCE). As the subject of myth, the existence of Theseus as a real person has not been proven, but scholars believe that he may have been alive during the Late Bronze Age possibly as a king in the 8th or 9th century.