Crossword clues for theseus
theseus
- Shakespeare’s Duke of Athens
- Founder-hero of Athens
- Article Sue’s brought up depicts Greek mythical character
- Hero Weasley occasionally enters in this manner
- University dissertations written about Greek hero
- Slayer of the Minotaur
- He slew the Minotaur
- Mythical Minotaur slayer
- Minotaur's killer
- Legendary slayer of the Minotaur who became king of Athens
- Labyrinth escapee
- Maze runner?
- Ariadne helped him navigate the Labyrinth
- (Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica
- Minotaur's slayer
- Minotaur slayer
- Amazons' conqueror
- Greek hero puts article to varied uses
- Greek hero recognised in Florida and Georgia?
- Minotaur killer
- Ancient hero outside of Seattle in America
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
legendary hero-king of Athens; the name is of uncertain origin.
Wikipedia
Theseus (; ) was the mythical king of Athens and was the son of Aethra by two fathers: Aegeus and Poseidon.
Theseus was a founder-hero, like Perseus, Cadmus, or Heracles (Hercules), all of whom battled and overcame foes that were identified with an archaic religious and social order. As Heracles was the Dorian hero, Theseus was a founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer: his name comes from the same root as ("thesmos"), Greek for "The Gathering". The myths surrounding Theseus—his journeys, exploits, and family—have provided material for fiction throughout the ages.
Theseus was responsible for the synoikismos ("dwelling together")—the political unification of Attica under Athens, represented emblematically in his journey of labours, subduing ogres and monstrous beasts. Because he was the unifying king, Theseus built and occupied a palace on the fortress of the Acropolis that may have been similar to the palace that was excavated in Mycenae. Pausanias reports that after the synoikismos, Theseus established a cult of Aphrodite Pandemos ("Aphrodite of all the People") and Peitho on the southern slope of the Acropolis.
Plutarch's vita (a literalistic biography) of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus' escape, and the love of Ariadne for Theseus. Plutarch's sources, not all of whose texts have survived independently, included Pherecydes (mid-fifth century BC), Demon (c. 400 BC), Philochorus, and Cleidemus (both fourth century BC).
Theseus was the king of Athens. The name may also refer to:
- HMS Theseus, three ships of the Royal Navy
- Bristol Theseus, an aircraft engine
- Theseus Faversham, a character in the radio comedy The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
- "Theseus", a song by Patrick Wolf from The Bachelor
- Theseus (film), an upcoming film
- Theseus (programming language for relational databases), a programming language for relational databases, made in ~1979.
- Theseus (programming language), a high-level language for reversible computing
- Theseus, an electromechanical mouse constructed by researcher Claude Shannon as one of the first experiments in artificial intelligence.
- Theseus, duke of Athens (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Usage examples of "theseus".
His son Androgeus visited Athens, where King Aegeus, the father of Theseus, received him.
Emily, and howled Palamon, And Theseus his sister took anon Swooning, and bare her from the corpse away.
Is this the proud Hippolytus I see, Than whom there breathed no fiercer foe to love And to that yoke which Theseus has so oft Endured?
For Theseus, while Hippolytus his son Learns of his death from vessels that are now In port.
Theseus then went off with Hercules in his war against the Amazons, where he took time to invade hell, marry an Amazon warrior, and explore the Labryinth of the minotaur in Crete.
When set was Theseus full rich and high, Hippolyta the queen and Emily, And other ladies in their degrees about, Unto the seates presseth all the rout.
PART III - HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR And at last they came to Crete, and to Cnossus, beneath the peaks of Ida, and to the palace of Minos the great king, to whom Zeus himself taught laws.
This Theseus, this Duke, this worthy knight When he had brought them into his city, And inned* them, ev'reach at his degree, *lodged He feasteth them, and doth so great labour To *easen them*, and do them all honour, *make them comfortable* That yet men weene* that no mannes wit *think Of none estate could amenden* it.
And, shortly to conclude, such a place Was never on earth made in so little space, For in the land there was no craftes-man, That geometry or arsmetrike* can**, *arithmetic **knew Nor pourtrayor*, nor carver of images, *portrait painter That Theseus ne gave him meat and wages The theatre to make and to devise.
Looke how the Crowne, which Ariadne woreVpon her yuory forehead that same dayThat Theseus her vnto his bridale bore,When the bold Centaures made that bloudy frayWith the fierce Lapithes, which did them dismay.
Hermia, adamant in her refusal, says she wishes her father would look with her eyes, but Theseus chides her, saying that she must learn to see with her father's eyes.
And after this Theseus hath ysent After a beere, and it al over-spradde With clooth of gold, the richeste that he hadde.
Thanne semed me ther was a parlement At Atthenes, upon certein pointz and caas, Among the whiche pointz yspoken was To have with certein contrees alliaunce, And have fully of Thebans obeisaunce, For which this noble Theseus anon Leet senden after gentil Palamon, Unwist of hym what was the cause and why.
For which anon duc Theseus leet crye, To stynten alle rancour and envye, The gree, as wel of o syde as of oother, And eyther syde ylik as ootheres brother, And yaf hem yiftes after hir degree, And fully heeld a feeste dayes three, And convoyed the kynges worthily Out of his toun a journee, largely.
And thus withinne a while his name is spronge Bothe of hise dedes and his goode tonge, That Theseus hath taken hym so neer That of his chambre he made hym a Squier, And gaf hym gold to mayntene his degree.