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Theseus is a great hero of Affic legend son of Aegeus and Aethra. Aegeus being childless was allowed by Pittheus, king of Troezen, to have child (Theseus) by his daughter Aethra. Pittheus thinking to help fulfill the prophecy of the oracle at Delphi regarding how childlessness of king Aegeus would end, Pittheus plied Aegeus with wine and lured him into Aethras bed. Aegeus on his departure hid his sword and his shoes under a large stone as birth tokens. He told Aethra if she had their son and if he could lift the stone, to give him the sword and shoes to their son and send him to Athens. When Aethra thought Theseus was man enough, she took him to the stone and told him to lift it. Theseus lifts it with no problem. Aethra then told him …show more content…
Theseus did some research about the city and its king and got some news. The intelligence that king Aegeus was in the helpless clutches of the evil sorceress Medea. So when he came face to face with his father for the first time, he kept the sword and the shoes hidden. Medea however knew that Theses was Aegeus son trough her occult powers. Theseus going to Athens and meet his dad Aegeus wasn’t convenient for Medea. Medea had a child of her own and wanted him to ensure the kingdom would pass to her son. Medea took advantage that Aegeus didn’t recognized Theseus as his son and was just a stranger to him. Medea conspired to poison the aged kings mind against the stranger and suggested to send Theseus to capture the dreadful Marathonian Bull so she could get rid of him easily. Theseus sure enough captures the bull and survived. Medea had to go with plan B, which was to poison Theseus during the feast to celebrate his victory. However, as Theseus was about to drink the poisoned wine, the eyes of Aegeus fell upon the sword and shoes Theseus had just worn. He then recognized his son; he knocked the cup of poison wine off Theseus hand and, embracing Theseus with joy and emotion named Theseus as his son and successor before his subjects. Evil Medea was perpetually banished from …show more content…
Soon Theseus found out that Athens was facing a great tragedy. For the past couple of decades, Aegeus had been paying a barbarous tribute to King Minos of Crete after he had been defeated in a long-running war, launched by the Cretans to avenge the murder of Androgens the younger son of the Cretan king, by the Athenians. The tribute consisted of seven boys and seven maidens from the noblest families of Athens to be sent every nine years to Crete to be devoured by Minotaur the fearful half man half bull, who lived in the Labyrinth, an impressive constructer with crossed paths from which no man could escape. The tribute consisted of seven boys and seven maidens from the noblest families of Athens to be sent at every year to Crete to be devoured by Minotaur, the fearful half-man half-beast, who lived in the Labyrinth, an impressive construction with crossed paths from which no man could escape. Despite his father's objections, Theseus was determined to embark upon the perilous mission as one of the nine boys on the occasion of the third tribute. Before he set sail, he promised his father Aegeus that, should he return victorious from this task, the ship carrying him and the others would hoist white sails instead of the normal black sails. Theseus set sail with his fellow boys and maidens only after taking some wise precautions. He consulted an oracle, which told him to make Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, his patroness.

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