theseus minotaur Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/theseus-minotaur Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Theseus & Peirithous http://toursmaps.com/theseus-peirithous.html http://toursmaps.com/theseus-peirithous.html#respond Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:44:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245897 Theseus’ closest friend, Peirithous, who fought with him against the Amazons, played a prominent role in another incident, which seared itself into Athens’ psyche and was depicted on the Parthenon: the battle between the Lapiths and Centaurs at Iolcus. As king of the Lapiths, whose territory bordered northern Attica, Peirithous had once been Theseus’ enemy – they first met when Peirithous raided Theseus’ cattle herds at Marathon. But each was so impressed with the other that they swore an oath of undying friendship. Thus Theseus attended Peirithous’ wedding, and when the drunken Centaurs tried to rape the Lapith women, they

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/theseus-peirithous.html/feed 0 Athens: Prize of Athene, Kingdom of Theseus http://toursmaps.com/athens-prize-of-athene-kingdom-of-theseus.html http://toursmaps.com/athens-prize-of-athene-kingdom-of-theseus.html#respond Fri, 09 Feb 2018 18:40:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245784 Glistening and violet-crowned, the subject of so many songs, protectress of all Greece – famous Athens with your divine acropolis. Gods of Olympus, come here to dance! Grant us sublime grace as you come here to the city’s sacred heart, so heavy with the scent of incense, the path which leads here so well-trodden! Come to this sacred land of Athens with its famous market place so elegantly built! And listen warmly to our songs of garlands twined with violets plucked in the dew of spring. Possibly once holding a winged Victory in its outstretched hand, this bronze statue found

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]]> http://toursmaps.com/athens-prize-of-athene-kingdom-of-theseus.html/feed 0 Theseus & the Minotaur http://toursmaps.com/theseus-the-minotaur.html http://toursmaps.com/theseus-the-minotaur.html#respond Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:20:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=245902 As for Poseidon’s white bull, which was now rampaging free, Heracles abducted it as one of his labours to mainland Greece, where it settled at Marathon, near Athens. When it continued to wreak havoc, Aegeus, king of Athens, promised to reward whoever who could destroy it. Among those who tried was Minos’ son Androgeus, but in the encounter it was he, not the bull, who lost his life. (Another version of Androgeus’ death suggests that, while in Athens to compete in games, he conspired with Aegeus’ enemies, so Aegeus had him murdered.) Victorious, Theseus drags the dead Minotaur from the

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