May 16, 2023 · 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 ...

May 23, 2023 · 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).

Nov 29, 2022 · 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.

May 20, 2023 · 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 ...

Oct 4, 2023 · 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.

Jul 11, 2023 · 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.

Dec 8, 2022 · 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 ...

Feb 27, 2023 · Acamas was a Greek hero and son of Theseus, the famous Athenian king best known for slaying the Minotaur. He fought in the Trojan War and later ruled Athens jointly with his brother Demophon.

Jan 13, 2023 · 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.

May 20, 2023 · 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.