...em for fear someone might say, ‘Look, when the children do not have a father, Iolaus does not protect them, though he is their kinsman!’ Since we have been banished from all the rest of Greece , we have come to Marathon and the land that borders it and are sitting at the altars of the gods supplicating for help. For it is said that Theseus' two sons dwell in the plain of this land, which ...