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Theseus

Theseus, son of Aegeus

hunts the Calydonian boar: Apollod. 1.8.2
son of Aegeus and Aethra: Apollod. 3.15.8
son of Poseidon and Aethra, daughter of Pittheus: Paus. 1.17.3, Paus. 2.30.9, Paus. 10.25.7
mother of Theseus carried away captive by Dioscuri: Paus. 1.41.4
great-grandson of Pelops: Paus. 1.41.5, Paus. 5.10.8
called an Erechthid: Paus. 7.17.7
born at Genethlium near Troezen: Paus. 2.32.9
story of young Theseus and the lion's skin of Herakles: Paus. 1.27.7
procures the tokens left by Aegeus: Paus. 1.27.8, Paus. 2.32.7, Apollod. 3.15.8
clears the road from Troezen to Athens of rogues: Paus. 2.1.4, Apollod. 3.15.8, Apollod. E.6.3
slays Periphetes in Epidaurus: Apollod. 3.15.8
slays robber Sinis at Isthmus of Corinth: Paus. 1.37.4, Paus. 2.1.4
kills Sinis, the Pinebender: Apollod. 3.15.8, Apollod. 3.16.2
destroys Cromyon sow: Paus. 2.1.3
slays the Crommyon sow: Apollod. 1.9.28
hurls Sciron into sea: Paus. 1.3.1, Paus. 1.44.8, Apollod. 1.9.28
overthrows Cercyon in wrestling: Paus. 1.39.3
invents art of wrestling: Paus. 1.39.3
slays Procrustes: Paus. 1.38.5
slays Cercyon and Damastes or Polypemon: Apollod. 2.1.1
purified by sons of Phytalus: Paus. 1.37.4
demonstrates his manhood to masons: Paus. 1.19.1
his friendship with Pirithous: Paus. 10.29.9
his covenant with Pirithous: Paus. 1.18.4
joins Pirithous in expedition to obtain a wife: Paus. 1.41.5
Theseus and Pirithous carry off Helen from Lacedaemon: Paus. 1.18.4, Paus. 3.18.15, Paus. 3.24.11
Theseus takes Helen to wife: Paus. 2.32.7
father of Iphigenia by Helen: Paus. 2.22.6 ff.
his abduction of Helen into Attica: Hdt. 9.73, Apollod. 2.3.2
carries off Helen to Aphidnae: Apollod. 3.10.7
in the Argo: Apollod. 1.9.17
goes to Thesprotis with Pirithous to carry off king's wife: Paus. 1.17.4, Paus. 1.18.4, Paus. 2.22.6
kept prisoner in Thesprotis: Paus. 1.17.4, 5, Paus. 3.18.5
descends with Pirithous to hell: Paus. 9.31.5
attempts to win Persephone for Pirithous, but is detained with him in Hades: Apollod. 2.3.2
rescued by Herakles and sent back to Athens: Apollod. 2.3.2
bound fast in hell but rescued by Herakles: Paus. 1.17.4, Paus. 10.29.9, Apollod. 2.5.12
in Hades: Apollod. 3.10.7
allies himself with Pirithous in the war with the centaurs: Apollod. 2.2.2, Apollod. 2.3.1
Theseus fights Centaurs at wedding of Pirithous: Paus. 1.17.2, Paus. 5.10.8
comes to Athens: Apollod. 2.1.3
sent against the Marathonian bull: Apollod. 2.1.3
drives bull of Marathon to Acropolis and sacrifices it: Paus. 1.27.9 ff.
recognized by Aegeus: Apollod. 2.1.3, Apollod. 2.1.3
his adventures with the Minotaur, Phaedra, and Ariadne: Apollod. 3.1.4
sent with the third tribute to the Minotaur: Apollod. E.1.6
sails for Crete to beard the Minotaur: Paus. 1.1.2, Paus. 1.22.5, Paus. 1.42.2
fetches ring of Minos from sea: Paus. 1.17.3
fights bull of Minos (Minotaur): Paus. 1.24.1, Paus. 3.18.16
vanquishes Asterion, son of Minos: Paus. 2.31.1
by means of a clue furnished by Ariadne he enters the labyrinth and kills the Minotaur: Apollod. E.1.6, Apollod. E.1.9
goes with Ariadne to Naxos: Apollod. E.1.9
robbed of Ariadne by Dionysus: Paus. 9.40.4, Paus. 10.29.4
dedicates image of Aphrodite to Delian Apollo: Paus. 9.40.4
holds games in Delos in honour of Apollo: Paus. 8.48.3
forgets to hoist white sails instead of black on his return from Crete: Paus. 1.22.5
succeeds to the sovereignty of Athens: Apollod. E.1.11
founds temple of Saviour Artemis on his return from Crete: Paus. 2.31.1
collects Athenians into one city: Paus. 1.22.3
institutes worship of Vulgar Aphrodite: Paus. 1.22.3
Panathenian games get their name in his time: Paus. 8.2.1
false tradition that Theseus instituted democracy at Athens: Paus. 1.3.3
goes with Herakles against the Amazons: Apollod. 2.1.5, Paus. 1.2.1, Paus. 5.11.4
carries off Antiope or Hippolyte: Apollod. E.1.15
carries off Amazon Antiope: Paus. 1.2.1
vanquishes the Amazons at Athens: Apollod. E.1.16
defeats Amazons in Attica or Troezenia: Paus. 1.15.2, Paus. 1.41.7, Paus. 2.32.9, Paus. 5.11.7
said to have slain Timalcus, son of Megareus: Paus. 1.41.3 ff.
hunts Calydonian boar: Paus. 8.45.6
refuses to surrender children of Herakles to Eurystheus: Paus. 1.32.6
receives the banished Oedipus: Apollod. 3.5.9
with the Athenians, captures Thebes and gives the Argive dead to be buried: Apollod. 3.7.1, Paus. 1.39.2 ff.
has a son Hippolytus by the Amazon: Apollod. 2.1.5
marries Phaedra: Apollod. E.1.16, Paus. 1.22.2
sends Hippolytus to Troezen: Paus. 1.22.2
curses his son Hippolytus: Apollod. E.1.16
by his curses causes death of Hippolytus: Paus. 2.27.4
father of Acamas and Demophon: Apollod. E.1.16, Apollod. E.5.21
banished by Menestheus: Apollod. E.1.22, Apollod. E.1.24
father of Demophon: Paus. 10.25.7
father of Melanippus by daughter of Sinis: Paus. 10.25.7
kills the fifty sons of Pallas: Apollod. E.1.11
slays Pallas and his sons: Paus. 1.22.2
tried for slaughter of Pallas and his sons: Paus. 1.28.10
goes to Troezen to be purified: Paus. 1.22.2
killed by Lycomedes: Apollod. 2.4.1
goes to Scyros: Paus. 1.17.6
treacherously murdered there by Lycomedes: Paus. 1.17.6
his bones brought back from Scyros to Athens by Cimon, Paus. 1.17.6, Paus. 3.3.7
sanctuaries of Theseus: Paus. 1.17.2, 6, Paus. 1.30.4
Theseus at battle of Marathon: Paus. 1.15.3
sacrifice offered by Athenians to Theseus and Poseidon at Rhium: Paus. 10.11.6
pictures of Theseus at Athens, Olympia, and Delphi: Paus. 1.3.3, Paus. 1.15.2, 3, Paus. 1.17.2, 3, Paus. 5.11.5, Paus. 10.29.9
statues and images: Paus. 1.3.1, Paus. 1.8.4, Paus. 1.24.1, Paus. 1.27.8, Paus. 4.32.1, Paus. 5.11.4, Paus. 10.10.1
images of Theseus in all Greek gymnasiums: Paus. 4.32.1
Theseus sculptured in gables of temples at Olympia and Tegea: Paus. 5.10.8, Paus. 8.45.6
represented in relief on throne of Apollo at Amyclae: Paus. 3.18.15, 16, on chest of Cypselus: Paus. 5.19.1, and on footstool of Zeus at Olympia: Paus. 5.11.7
rock of Theseus: Paus. 2.32.7
sons of Theseus flee to Euboea: Paus. 1.17.6
sons of Theseus in Wooden Horse: Paus. 1.23.8
altar of children of Theseus at Phalerum: Paus. 1.1.4