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Son of Poseidon, King Aegeus and Aethra.
He was a great Athenian hero. He corresponds to Attica what the Dorian Heracles was to the Peloponnese. His name means "strong man par excellence".
King Aegeus stayed at Trezena, whose king Pitheus, son of Pelops, understanding the oracle, made Aegeus get drunk and lie with his daughter Aethra. That same night, however, Poseidon also bedded Aethra. Aegeus asked Aethra that, if she gave birth to a boy, she would only reveal to her son who her parents were when he had the strength to get the sword and sandals that he had hidden under a huge stone. Thereafter he was to go secretly to Athens, bearing his father's sword and putting on his sandals.
A boy was born, who grew up vigorous and strong like a hero. At sixteen, his physical vigor was so impressive that Etra decided to tell him who the father was and what was expected of him. Theseus then lifted the huge stone previously moved by Aegeus, retrieved his father's sword and sandals and headed for Athens.
On his journey, he reached Epidaurus, where he met Periphetes, son of Hephaestus and Anticleia. Periphetes, like his father, was lame and used his crutch as a club to kill the pilgrims who were going to Epidaurus. Theseus killed him with his own crutch/club and kept it as a souvenir of his first victory. Theseus went through several other battles, among them, he fought once with Sinis, the giant son of Poseidon, who tied his enemies to a pine tree and threw them against rocks, bending the same to the ground. Theseus did the same to Sinis and continued on his journey.
When Theseus arrived in Athens he was already known for his deeds, but King Aegeus did not know that he was his son. Medea was already installed in the royal palace after fleeing Corinth after the murder of four people, including her two children. Medea knew the hero's identity, but she didn't tell Aegeus, instead she convinced him to kill the stranger, who could be a threat to his reign. She put poison in the wine and offered it to the illustrious visitor. Theseus drew his sword for his comfort at the table and Aegeus recognized him, thus avoiding his death. Medea has once again been expelled from a kingdom, only this time she has returned to Colchis.
Upon learning that her cousins, the fifty Pallantids, wanted to take the throne from their father, Theseus decided to finish them off. The cousins split up to lay an ambush, but Theseus was warned by the herald Leos. Afterwards, Theseus had to go into exile for a year in Trezena.
After the death of the young Androgeus, who was the son of Minos and his wife Pasiphae, kings of Crete, Minos blamed Aegeus, heading for Megara with his powerful fleet and soon left to besiege Athens.
During the war, a plague sent by Zeus against the Athenians caused the defeat of Aegeus, which led King Minos to charge a fee every nine years. The fee was in the form of seven Athenian boys and girls sent to Crete, where they would be placed in the labyrinth to be devoured by their monstrous son, the Minotaur. In the third shipment of young people, Theseus was present and decided to intervene in the problem. He took the place of a young man and left for Crete to enter the Labyrinth. At the start, he used black sails to navigate and his father gave him a set of white sails, to use if he was victorious in the mission.
The beautiful Ariadne, daughter of the mighty Minos, fell in love with Theseus and agreed with him a way to find the way out of the terrible labyrinth. A fairly simple means: just a ball of yarn.
Ariadne would stand at the entrance to the palace, holding the ball that Theseus would unroll as she advanced through the labyrinth. To get back to where he started, he would just have to follow the thread that Ariadne would hold tightly. Theseus, after a fierce fight against the monster, managed to kill the Minotaur with a blow to the head.
On his way back, he stopped at the island of Naxos and sailed away from there, leaving Ariadne to sleep. This is the best known version and in another it is Dionysus who asked Theseus to leave the young woman there. As a wedding gift to Ariadne, Dionysus gave her a chiseled gold diadem made by Hephaestus. This diadem was later transformed into a constellation. Dionysus and Ariadne had four children: Thoas, Staphylo, Enopion and Pepareto.
When approaching Athens, Theseus forgot to change the black sails for white sails and his father, when he saw the ship, thought that he had died in the endeavor, throwing himself from the cliff into the sea, which then began to bear his name. .
Ascending the throne, Theseus organized a democratic government, uniting the inhabitants of Attica, making wise and useful laws for the people. Seeing that everything was going well and the Athenians were happy, Theseus once again left in search of the adventures he so enjoyed.
He was part of the crew of Jason's ship Argos, was one of the Argonauts, accompanied Heracles when he landed in Themyscira, the city of the Amazons, when Heracles beat Hippolyta thus winning his belt, completing another one of the 12 works, but refused to to give him a daughter since she was still in mourning for the family Hippolyta decided to keep the second best warrior, Theseus himself.
With Queen Hippolyta he spawned: Hippolytus.

Description
Son of Poseidon, King Aegeus and Aethra.
He was a great Athenian hero. He corresponds to Attica what the Dorian Heracles was to the Peloponnese. His name means "strong man par excellence".
King Aegeus stayed at Trezena, whose king Pitheus, son of Pelops, understanding the oracle, made Aegeus get drunk and lie with his daughter Aethra. That same night, however, Poseidon also bedded Aethra. Aegeus asked Aethra that, if she gave birth to a boy, she would only reveal to her son who her parents were when he had the strength to get the sword and sandals that he had hidden under a huge stone. Thereafter he was to go secretly to Athens, bearing his father's sword and putting on his sandals.
A boy was born, who grew up vigorous and strong like a hero. At sixteen, his physical vigor was so impressive that Etra decided to tell him who the father was and what was expected of him. Theseus then lifted the huge stone previously moved by Aegeus, retrieved his father's sword and sandals and headed for Athens.
On his journey, he reached Epidaurus, where he met Periphetes, son of Hephaestus and Anticleia. Periphetes, like his father, was lame and used his crutch as a club to kill the pilgrims who were going to Epidaurus. Theseus killed him with his own crutch/club and kept it as a souvenir of his first victory. Theseus went through several other battles, among them, he fought once with Sinis, the giant son of Poseidon, who tied his enemies to a pine tree and threw them against rocks, bending the same to the ground. Theseus did the same to Sinis and continued on his journey.
When Theseus arrived in Athens he was already known for his deeds, but King Aegeus did not know that he was his son. Medea was already installed in the royal palace after fleeing Corinth after the murder of four people, including her two children. Medea knew the hero's identity, but she didn't tell Aegeus, instead she convinced him to kill the stranger, who could be a threat to his reign. She put poison in the wine and offered it to the illustrious visitor. Theseus drew his sword for his comfort at the table and Aegeus recognized him, thus avoiding his death. Medea has once again been expelled from a kingdom, only this time she has returned to Colchis.
Upon learning that her cousins, the fifty Pallantids, wanted to take the throne from their father, Theseus decided to finish them off. The cousins split up to lay an ambush, but Theseus was warned by the herald Leos. Afterwards, Theseus had to go into exile for a year in Trezena.
After the death of the young Androgeus, who was the son of Minos and his wife Pasiphae, kings of Crete, Minos blamed Aegeus, heading for Megara with his powerful fleet and soon left to besiege Athens.
During the war, a plague sent by Zeus against the Athenians caused the defeat of Aegeus, which led King Minos to charge a fee every nine years. The fee was in the form of seven Athenian boys and girls sent to Crete, where they would be placed in the labyrinth to be devoured by their monstrous son, the Minotaur. In the third shipment of young people, Theseus was present and decided to intervene in the problem. He took the place of a young man and left for Crete to enter the Labyrinth. At the start, he used black sails to navigate and his father gave him a set of white sails, to use if he was victorious in the mission.
The beautiful Ariadne, daughter of the mighty Minos, fell in love with Theseus and agreed with him a way to find the way out of the terrible labyrinth. A fairly simple means: just a ball of yarn.
Ariadne would stand at the entrance to the palace, holding the ball that Theseus would unroll as she advanced through the labyrinth. To get back to where he started, he would just have to follow the thread that Ariadne would hold tightly. Theseus, after a fierce fight against the monster, managed to kill the Minotaur with a blow to the head.
On his way back, he stopped at the island of Naxos and sailed away from there, leaving Ariadne to sleep. This is the best known version and in another it is Dionysus who asked Theseus to leave the young woman there. As a wedding gift to Ariadne, Dionysus gave her a chiseled gold diadem made by Hephaestus. This diadem was later transformed into a constellation. Dionysus and Ariadne had four children: Thoas, Staphylo, Enopion and Pepareto.
When approaching Athens, Theseus forgot to change the black sails for white sails and his father, when he saw the ship, thought that he had died in the endeavor, throwing himself from the cliff into the sea, which then began to bear his name. .
Ascending the throne, Theseus organized a democratic government, uniting the inhabitants of Attica, making wise and useful laws for the people. Seeing that everything was going well and the Athenians were happy, Theseus once again left in search of the adventures he so enjoyed.
He was part of the crew of Jason's ship Argos, was one of the Argonauts, accompanied Heracles when he landed in Themyscira, the city of the Amazons, when Heracles beat Hippolyta thus winning his belt, completing another one of the 12 works, but refused to to give him a daughter since she was still in mourning for the family Hippolyta decided to keep the second best warrior, Theseus himself.
With Queen Hippolyta he spawned: Hippolytus.