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Theseus
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Athens greatest hero
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"Polis"
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"City-state" Athens is the greatest "polis"
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3 Athenian Boasts
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1. Autochthonous ("Born from the earth itself") Snakey from the waist down.
2. Descended from Cecrops- Mortal king. Athens is aka Cecropia 3. Descended from Athena - The city of Athens |
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Cecrops introduced..
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arts of civilization such as city building, burial, monogamy and abandonded human sacrifice.
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"Erichthonius"
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"Very Earthly". god of Conception and birth. is earth-born w/ snaky bottom
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Hephaestus tries to rape Athena, semen falls on ground.
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Erichthonis is born. Athena gives him to the daughters of Cecrops, while he is in a chest.
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Athena warns Cecropids not to look inside the chest
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But they do, of course, and they go crazy from what they saw, so they leap off the Acropolips.
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Athena raises Erichthonius herself and he becomes ...
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The king of Athens and he is credited with instituting the festival of Panathenaea and set up a wooden statue of Athena on the Acropolis
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Erecththeus
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"Very Earthly" is Erichthonius' grandson. They are both avatars of Poseidon and are worshipped as Poseidon Erechtheus and bulls are sacrificed for them
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Poseidon Erechtheus
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What Erecththeus & Erichtonius are worshipped as
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Erechtheum
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Temple on the Acropolis that is dedicated to Athena Polias the gaurdian of the city and also to Erechtheus. It contains a wooden statue of Athena, the tomb of Erechtheus and a slat spring
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Aegeus
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the childless king of athens, so he consults the Delphic oracle and it tells him not to open the wine skin. King Pittheus gets Aegeus drunk and has him sleep with his daughter Aethra
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Aethra
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sleeps with both Aegeus and Poseidon, so Aegeus demands that she raise the child is secret.
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Theseus's 6 Labours.
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From Troezen to Athens, the overland route is more dangerous.Theseus is like a "Mini heracles"
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Theseus' 1st Labour: Epidaurus
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Theseus kills Periphetes, son of Hephaestus. Used Periphetes own club to kill him
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Theseus' 2nd Labour: Isthmus of Corinth
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Theseus kills the rober Sinis (aka. Pityocamptes "pine bender") by the same way SInis killed, he ties them to 2 bnt trees and then releases them
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Theseus' 3rd Labour: North of Isthmus in the village of Crommyon
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He kills a monstrous sow
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Theseus' 4th Labour: Near Megara
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He kills Sciron the robber who forces passerbys to wash him feet and then kicks them over the edge to be eaten by a giant turtle...this is how he died too.
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Theseus' 5th Labour: Eleusis
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Cercyon was once a local hero but now forces people to wrestle him to the death, Theseus out wrestled him
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Theseus' 6th Labour: Between Eleusis & Athens
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Procrustes ("The stretcher") who possessed a hammer, a saw and a bed and compelled travellers to lie down, he made fit (cut them down or hammered them out) and this is how Theseus killed him too
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When Theseus is on his way home...
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He mets Medea, a sorceress who is Aegeas' new wife, and Medea wanted her son to be the new king, not Theseus. She tries to get Aegeas to poison him but he recognizes it is his son so he doesnt, Medea runs away on a dragon drawn chariot
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The Bull of Marathon
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The same bull Heracles had tamed in his 7th labour had escaped, Theseus traps it and kills it. Gives it as a sacrifce to Apollo Delphinius
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Crete is home to...
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the Palace at Cnossus, which was the capital of a great "thalassocracy" which means "Sea power"
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Minos
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Son of Zeus and Europa, who claims kingship of Crete. But Poseidon sends a bull from the sea to be sacrificed but Minos keeps the one from Poseidon for himself and sacrifices a different one, so Poseidon causes his wife to fall in love wirth the bull
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Pasiphae
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Minos' wife, mother of his children, falls in love with bull because Poseidon makes her. She gets Daedalus to construct a hollow wooden cow and she sleeps with it, gives birth to Minotaur - Bull of Minos
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Ariadne, Phaedra and Androgeus
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Minos & Pasiphae's children
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Minotaur
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Offspring of Pasiphae and bull. "Bull of Minos" He is half man, half bull and a man eating monster
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The Labryrinth
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Minos gets Daedalus to construct the maze like prison and the Minotaur is placed inside it and fed human flesh.
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Androgeous gets killed
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Minos attacks Athens to avenge his son, Athens gives him 7 men and 7 women to feed the Minotaur. Theseus volunteers but tells Aegeus that if he succeeds he will fly white sails, fails he will fly blck
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Ariadne
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Daughter of Minos, falls for Theseus, promises to help him as long as he takes herwith him. She betrays her father and gives Theseus a ball of wool which will help him find his way out of the maze, so Theseus is able to slay the Minotaur and get out safely
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Theseus abandons Ariadne of island of Naxos (aka dia)
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Dionysus rescuses Ariadne
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When Theseus is comnig home he forgets to fly white sails, so Aegeus...
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thinks he is dead and hurls herself into the sea (Aegean sea)
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Synoecism
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Union of villges (reformed by Theseus)
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Isthhmian Games
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Mini olympic games founded by Theseus
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Theseus helped Heracles in his 9th labour, so he received Antiope and brought her home
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Also became the father of Hippolytus. The amazons attacked in revenge but Theseus defeated them. In the battle Antiope died. This battle is called the Amazonmachy
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Theseus& Pirithous
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Pirithous is the king of Lapiths. Centaurs attack his wedding, but both men fought them off. Then both men tried to abduct Persephone who was trapped in Hades, and they get trapped to. Heracles rescues Theseus, but Pirithous remains
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Daedalus and his son Icarus are imprisoned in the Labyrinth...
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Daedalus makes wax-wings for him and his son so they can escape BUT he tells Icarus not to fly too high or too low. Of course Icarus doesn't listen, tried to fly too high and falls to his death
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