Casting lots for women. Having succeeded they then cast lots to see who was to marry the little girl, agreeing that the winner would also aid the other to get a wife. Childish tales again. But these tales about descents to the Underworld are deemed by some to be unlikely if not childish. And that is why they say otherwise, telling that Pirithous and Theseus never came to Hades , but instead invaded Thesprotia in northwestern Greece, where they, having failed in their military campaign which had as main purpose to carry off the wife of the Thesprotian king, were made captive and kept prisoners at a place called Cichyrus or Cicherus and formerly called Ephyra, not far from Buthrotum.
Reason argues with itself.
And when Theseus came after him Pirithous did not fly but waited for Theseus . This is how they met, and when they had admired each other's beauty and daring, they became friends and brothers in arms, ratifying their friendship with oaths. For this insolence they were fought against at the banquet, being defeated and expelled from the country. Helen and the lots. Years later, when Theseus was fifty years old, they made their incursion against Sparta and carried off Helen while she was dancing in Artemis ' temple, a girl who, as many say, was not of marriageable age.