Afte's Theseus: A Story Of The Hero

Consider a story where the hero, while still only a boy, fights with monsters, saves people and spars with the gods. In Theseus, the hero accomplishes all these different obstacles to reach his goal. In the beginning of the story, I did not really enjoy it, as it started out a little boring. After Theseus begins his quest, it gets to be more exciting and fascinating. My impression of this story and of the hero, Theseus, changed from limited interest to admiration and finally to disgust.

The beginning of the story, Theseus, was not that interesting. One would think that because it starts out with Aegeus leaving his wife, because he didn’t want to get killed by his nephew. It didn’t seem too fascinating in that they were pretending that Theseus father was Poseidon and his mother wanted him to shift an immense rock. Also his mother wanted him to bring a sword to his father after he found it under the rock. The opening of the story didn’t really catch my interest and led me to not really desire to read the story. …show more content…
When Theseus started out on his mission, he met and killed a giant named Sinis, who would slaughter travelers with two pine trees. It started getting even extra appealing after that when he had to clash with a giant sow and a wicked innkeeper. After that a part that is unforgettable to me, was when Theseus was put in prison by the Athenians so that he could be devoured by the Minotaur. However, he prayed to the goddess Aphrodite and she had Ariadne, King Minos’s daughter fall in love with Theseus and let him out so he could kill the Minotaur. As I comprehended other parts of the story, the Greek myth kept getting increasingly