2023年5月16日 · In his iconography, Theseus is usually depicted as a handsome, strong, and beardless young hero. Theseus’ battle with the half-bull Minotaur was an especially popular theme in Greek art. Family. Theseus’ father was either Poseidon, the god of the sea, or Aegeus, the king of Athens. His mother was Aethra, the daughter of King Pittheus of ...

2023年5月23日 · Theseus was one of fourteen tributes (seven male, seven female) that the Athenians were forced to send regularly as offerings to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster. But Theseus vowed to kill the Minotaur, and Ariadne agreed to help him (after making him swear, according to some accounts, that he would marry her afterwards).

2023年5月20日 · The "Theseus Mosaic" (300–400 CE), discovered in the floor of a Roman villa at the Loigerfelder near Salzburg, Austria. The battle between Theseus and the Minotaur is pictured at the center of an elaborate Labyrinth. Google Arts and Culture Public Domain. This he planned. of mazey wanderings that deceived the eyes, and labyrinthic passages ...

2023年10月4日 · Demophon, son of Theseus, was a Greek hero who ruled as joint king of Athens alongside his brother Acamas. Demophon and Acamas fought in the Trojan War; after the city was sacked, they rescued their grandmother Aethra from slavery.

2022年11月29日 · Theseus and the Attic War. The myth of Antiope begins with the hero Theseus. When Theseus arrived at the faraway land of the Amazons (somewhere in the neighborhood of the Black Sea), he fell in love with a beautiful Amazon queen, whom most sources called Antiope. 5th century BCE statue of Theseus abducting Antiope.

2023年7月11日 · Theseus and the Attic War. According to some sources, Hippolyta was later carried off by Theseus, the Athenian hero most famous for killing the Minotaur. She was either given to Theseus by Heracles, who took her captive after stealing her girdle, or else was taken during a separate adventure.

2022年12月8日 · Abduction by Theseus. Even at a very young age, Helen’s beauty brought her unwanted attention. When she was still just a child—in some sources as young as seven years old, in others ten or twelve years old—Helen was abducted by the Athenian hero Theseus, who wanted to marry the daughter of a god. He was helped in this plot by his close ...

2023年5月20日 · Theseus hoped to make Helen his wife as soon as she came of age. But Castor and Pollux invaded Athens and brought Helen home to Sparta. According to the standard tradition, Theseus left Athens soon after abducting Helen to help his friend Pirithous on a reckless mission to abduct another daughter of Zeus: the Underworld goddess Persephone.

2023年1月13日 · Theseus Slaying the Minotaur by Antoine-Louis Barye (1843) The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain Iconography. The Crommyonian Sow was one of Theseus’ less important conquests, but she did occasionally appear in ancient art, especially in Athenian vase painting from the fifth century BCE.

2022年11月29日 · In one version, Medea had Aegeus send Theseus against the monstrous Bull of Marathon, hoping the bull would gore him to death. But the brave and strong Theseus succeeded in killing the bull, thus foiling Medea’s plan. In another version, Medea told Aegeus that Theseus was a threat, then poisoned his food.