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Mythology
Theseus
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Classics
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2008

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Aegeus
Definition
King of Athens; father of Theseus
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Aethra
Definition
Princess of Troezen; mother of Theseus
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Agenor
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king of Phoenicia; father of Cadmus and Europa
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Ariadne
Definition
Princess of Crete; helps Theseus; winds up with Dionysus
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Europa
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Princess who was kidnapped by Zeus as a bull and left at Crete; gave birth to Minos
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Hippolytus
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Theseus' son with Hippolyta; swore chastity; was falsely accused of rape and killed by Theseus
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Marathonian Bull
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A task for Theseus; he was sent to kill it by Medea
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Minos
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Son of Zeus and Europa; husband to Pasiphae; father of Ariadne
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Pasiphae
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Caused to fall in love with a bull as a way of punishing her husband; gives birth to the Minotaur, Ariadne, Phaedra
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Phaedra
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daughter of Pasiphae; sister of Ariadne
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Procrustes
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bandit on the way to Athens; man with the iron bed
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Sinis
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Another bandit; the pine-bender
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Sciron
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Another bandit; kicked you off a cliff into the mouth of a man-eating turtle
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Troezen
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Home of Princess Aethra
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