Final Exam Notes from Module 13 - 22
Module 19
Theseus and his Labours
- Theseus’ mother is daughter of king Pittehus of Troezen
- Theseus is son of Poseidon and semi-divine
- alternate, son of Aegeus, king of Athens and descendant of the foudners
- Aegeus sleeps with Aethra in Troezen and tells her that the child must grow up not knowing who his father war
- if he is a boy she should be sent to Athens to life up a heavy rock under which Aegeus leaves a sword and pair of sandals as recognition tokens (recognition tokes are common in Greek and Roman myths)
- he must complete six tasks
- at Epidaurus, he kills Periphetes, son of Hephaestus, who is armed with a club
- in Corinth, he kills the robber Sinis, who kills people by bending trees to the ground, tying victims to both trees and letting them go
- near Crommyon he kills a great sow (female pig)
- at Sciron, he kills Sciron who would make all who pass wash his feet, and he would kick them over the cliff to be eaten by a large man-eating turtle, he throws him to the turtle
- at Elseusis he kills Cercyon in Wrestling by lifting him in the air and throwing him to the earth
- between Eleusis and Athens he kills Procrustes who made travellers lie on a bed, if they were too long he would cut them with a saw and if they were too short he hammered them to stretch them, Theseus kills him with a saw and hammer
- Theseus killing of Minotaur, centre of vase
Theseus’ Arrival in Athens and the Minotaur