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Theseus

deity earth Greek corroborated · 10

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #490 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 10 sources

When

First attested
1300 BCE
Attested period
-1300 – 2020
Historical notes
Mythological figure of ancient Greece.

Relationships

parent of
Virbius, Iphigenia, Hippolytus
co occurs with
Castor, Pollux, Themis, Horae, Aegea, Minos, Phaedra, Aegeus, Archeus, Bacchus, Peleus, Asterion, Ariane, Daedalus, Icarus, Hades, Chiron, Persephone, Thetis, Pasiphaë
consort of
Helen, Arianna, Ariadne
allied with
Pirithous, Ariadne, Daedalus, Apollo
enemy of
Minotaur, Ariadne, Crommyonian Sow, Phaea, Molpadia, Tauride
child of
Poseidon, Aegeus

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (9)
  1. Crommyonian Sow
  2. Helen of Troy
  3. Hyporchema
  4. Pyanopsia
  5. Ariadne (poem)
  6. Ariadne Abandoned by Theseus
  7. Arianna in Creta
  8. Catullus 64
  9. Icarus (2022 film)
encyclopedia (1)
  1. Aegean Sea (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Two Athenians, Theseus and Pirithous, thought that since they were sons of gods, they should have divine wives; they thus pledged to help each other abduct two daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen, and Pirithous vowed to marry Persephone, the wife of Hades.”

#40288 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“It is comparable to the geranos (γερανός), the ritual "crane dance" associated with Theseus. A similar kind of dance was the geranos (crane dance), which Theseus on his return from Crete was said to have performed in Delos”

#40793 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“The Pyanopsia is linked to Theseus, the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. In specific, the festival is linked to one of the Six Labours of Theseus, which was to kill the Minotaur on the Greek island of Crete.”

#41461 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“the father of Theseus, who, supposing his son dead, drowned himself in it”

#43748 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“Theseus is a member of those being sacrificed one year and volunteers to kill the Minotaur.”

#45790 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free