#aegeus

[mayhemforlace]

[whencyclopedia]

Cerberus

Cerberus (also spelt Kerberos) is a vicious three-headed dog in Greek mythology, who guards the entrance to the underworld. He allowed the souls of the dead to enter Hades but prevented the living (except for a few exceptions) from entering. Cerberus is a son of Typhon, a Giant, and Echidna, a half-woman, half-snake creature.

Anubis is the Egyptian counterpart of Cerberus. Like Cerberus, he had the head of a dog and guarded the underworld. Cerberus' name is first mentioned in Hesiod's (c. 700 BCE) Theogony.

Birth & Family

In his Theogony, Hesiod states that Cerberus was the son of Typhon, a serpentine Giant that breathed fire, and Echidna, a half-woman and half-snake creature. In addition, he was the brother of other fearsome creatures, including the two-headed dog Orthos and the Lernaean Hydra (a water serpent).

They say that Typho, terrible and proud And lawless, loved this nymph with glancing eyes, And she conceived and bore fierce progeny: First, Orthos the dog of Geryon, and next, Unspeakable Cerberus, who eats raw flesh, The bronze-voiced hound of Hades, shameless, strong, With fifty heads.

(Hesiod, Theogony, 310-316).

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[glorioustheseus]

Consider:

Supportive Shade being Aegeus.

It's hilarious to me. Showing up to a massive show that has your son that you knew for a month who accidentally caused your death because he forgot to change the sails like an idiot, only to root for that guy he hates a lot. It would destroy Theseus emotionally and mentally

[amostcuriousmythicist]

I think a part about the birth of Theseus that everyone seems to skip over is that it wasn’t supposed to happen at all.

When Aegeus visited the oracle to know why he can’t have children, it gave a cryptic message that basically meant that he is not supposed to impregnate a woman until he is in Athens.

When he goes to Troezen to visit his friend Pittheus, he immediately understands the oracles message and so he gets Aegeus drunk and has him sleep with his daughter Aethra in Troezen (for whatever reason?).

So if you notice, Aegeus got Aethra pregnant OUTSIDE of Athens meaning that Theseus birth was in defiance of the Oracle’s command. This was actually brought up by Plutarch himself to explain all the bad things that happened to Theseus and everyone else around him because his existence was against the will of the gods.

So when people joke about how it was for the best that Ariadne didn’t stay with Theseus because of his bad luck…well they’re not wrong 😅

[tylermileslockett]

Theseus #2 (the Journey to Athens and the Six Labors)

king Aegeus stops over to visit king Pitheus who, understanding the prophecy, offers his own daughter, Aethra, and after getting the king drunk, the two lay together. The same night, Aethra is visited by Athena in a dream who instructs the princess to visit the oceanside to pray for blessings. Here Poseidon appears and couples with her. Thus, Aethra is impregnated by both a king and a god, so the child has dual paternity.

When the child, Theseus, comes of age, he is instructed to remove a huge boulder to inherit his kingly father’s sword and sandals, and journey to Athens to claim his rightful princely birthright. The journey is long and arduous, fraught with death and danger, and Theseus proves his heroic worth by performing six labors, defeating evil villains who wish him harm by using their own evil techniques against them.

1.)         First, Theseus defeats the brigand Periphetes, the bronze club wielder, and lame legged, like his father, Hephaestus.

2.)         Next, he kills Pityocamptes, who would tie his victims to two bowed pine trees, releasing them and tearing the victims apart.

3.)         Third, he overcomes a creature; the Crommyonian Sow

4.)         Fourth, he outwits Sciron, who would push victims off a cliff to be eaten by a giant turtle.

5.)         Fifth he faces Cercyon at the holy sight of Eleusis, who challenged passers to wrestling matches. Theseus uses untold power and technique to achieve victory; and is thus credited as the originator of the sport of wrestling.

6.)         Sixth, he overcomes Procrustes, who had two beds in his home, one too short and one too long. IF the guest was too short, Procrustes would stretch him through torture to fit, or if the guest was too tall, the villain would chop off the guest’s feet.

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[spider-gets-artsy]

Iconsssss

[dreamconsumer]

Theseus and Aegeus. Unknown artist.

[sarafangirlart]

I can’t help but think of Perseus going “hey son-in-law would you mind if my granddaughters come live with me? No particular reason it’s just that uh, Andromeda here really wanted to get to know these girls right love?” Bc he knows how Kings behave when they want a son so bad he consults an oracle lol

[godsofhumanity]

Aegeus: do you have any skeletons in your closet? Medea: Literally or figuratively? Aegeus: i have to specify??

[wondyvillains]

Wonder Woman and Superman vs. Aegeus, from WONDER WOMAN #600 (2010)!

[enjoljeacharlichele]

No but Aegeus' death is the most hilarious death in greek mythology, it's a comedy of errors.

First there's Theseus who forgets that no today is not white sails' laundry day but oh well, we'll just leave the black ones on, no harm done right?

Wrong, because today the king your father, who endured Minos' horrible request and you leaving, is watching and well, his son is dead, no other offspring, it's time to jump into this convenient nameless sea leaving Athens without a government. Goodbye to the one father in greek mythology who actually loved his son.

And it doesn't end here, no, because Theseus is back, they all cry and they all decide that the best way to honor you is to forever immortalize your silly, silly decision.

But hey, at least the sea has a name now.

[mayhemforlace]

Right, Manfred! You're to find Johanna's guests and help us gather information on where her workshop might be.

[whencyclopedia]

Theseus

Theseus is a legendary hero from Greek mythology who was considered an early king of Athens. Famously killing villains, Amazons, and centaurs, Theseus' most celebrated adventure was his slaying of the fearsome Minotaur in the labyrinth of the Cretan king Minos.

In the Classical period, Theseus came to represent the perfect Athenian - the just man of action determined to serve his city as best he could and the staunch defender of democracy. Theseus appears in several Greek tragedy plays and his battle with the Minotaur was a favourite subject of Greek vase painters. He is the subject, too, of one of Plutarch's Lives biographies.

Early Adventures of Theseus – the Labours

In legend, Theseus' father was considered either the son of the god Poseidon or King Aegeus of Athens. His mother was Aethra, daughter of Pittheus, the king of Troezen, whom Aegeus seduced. Theseus spent his childhood at Troezen in the northeast of the Peloponnese as Aegeus had warned Aethra not to tell her son who his real father was until he came of age, perhaps explaining why Theseus was considered the son of Poseidon in his youth. When a young adult, the hero gathered up gifts of sandals and a sword from his father which had been buried under a heavy rock for when he was old enough to lift it. With these tokens, Theseus set off for Athens to claim, as Aegeus' only son, his inheritance, the kingdom of Athens. Before he could reach the city, though, he first had to battle various villains and monsters.

The first villain to be dispatched was Periphetes, who smashed the heads of anyone he came across with a huge iron club. Theseus killed him without ceremony and took his club as a handy weapon for his future adventures. A similar baddy was Sinis (also Sines) who hung around the Corinth countryside and bent pine trees so that they might strike and kill people who passed through the Isthmus. Our hero killed the troublesome Sinis using, of course, a bent pine tree. According to Plutarch, Theseus had a son, Melanippus, by Sinis' daughter Perigune.

Next came Skiron who blocked the narrow sea passage through the rocks of Megara. He took delight in forcing people to wash his feet and when they bent down to do so he would kick them over the cliff and into the sea. Whether the unfortunate travellers survived the fall or not was irrelevant as, in any case, they were then eaten by a giant turtle that haunted those parts. All this frightful behavior was put to an end by Theseus who kicked Skiron into the sea to be eaten by his own accomplice or, in another version, to be turned into a rock.

Next in line came Kerkyon, the champion wrestler who crushed to death anyone who passed his way, but Theseus beat him at his own sport. The last scoundrel was Prokroustes (also Procrustes or Damastes) who waylaid travellers and forced them onto a bed; if they were too tall for the bed he would chop off the excess, if they were too short he would stretch them using weights or hammer their limbs to increase their length. Theseus swiftly dealt with him too by putting him on his own device.

Finished with littering the Greek countryside with dead villains, Theseus then had to kill a bad-tempered sow called Phaia which was causing trouble, again, in the Corinth area. He finally did arrive at Athens, where he was not helped by his jealous step-mother Medea. She and Theseus' cousins, the Pallantidae, tried several times to do away with our hero but their ambushes and poisonings came to nothing. Medea then sent Theseus off on the dangerous errand of dealing with the bull of Marathon which was terrorizing the countryside. The hero captured the animal and sacrificed it to Apollo. In yet more adventures, Theseus even found time to help Meleager in the Calydonian Boar hunt and to accompany Jason and his Argonauts on their quest to find the Golden Fleece, but his greatest trial was yet to come.

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[mythologypaintings]

Theseus Lifting the Stone

Artist: Salvator Rosa (Italian, 1615-1673)

Theseus Lifting the Stone

In Greek mythology, Theseus lifted a boulder to prove himself a hero and claim his birthright as the son of Aegeus, king of Athens.

[amostcuriousmythicist]

Theseus and the 50 Sons of Pallas (the Pallantidae)

Now the Pallantidae had before this themselves hoped to gain possession of the kingdom when Aegeus died childless. But when Theseus was declared successor to the throne, exasperated that Aegeus should be king although he was only an adopted son of Pandion and in no way related to the family of Erechtheus, and again that Theseus should be prospective king although he was an immigrant and a stranger, they went to war. And dividing themselves into two bands, one of these marched openly against the city from Sphettus with their father; the other hid themselves at Gargettus and lay in ambush there, intending to attack their enemies from two sides. But there was a herald with them, a man of Hagnus, by name Leos. This man reported to Theseus the designs of the Pallantidae. Theseus then fell suddenly upon the party lying in ambush, and slew them all. Thereupon the party with Pallas dispersed.

Plutarch, The Life of Theseus. 13

Now in Plutarch’s account, Theseus only kills half of the sons of Pallas with the others escaping. Meanwhile in the Epitome by Psuedo Apollodorus, Theseus actually goes the extra mile and kills them all:

But Theseus succeeded to the sovereignty of Athens, and killed the sons of Pallas, fifty in number; likewise all who would oppose him were killed by him, and he got the whole government to himself.

Epitome, Apollodorus. 1.11

Theseus was just that kind of guy

[tylermileslockett]

Theseus #2 (the Journey to Athens and the Six Labors)

king Aegeus stops over to visit king Pitheus who, understanding the prophecy, offers his own daughter, Aethra, and after getting the king drunk, the two lay together. The same night, Aethra is visited by Athena in a dream who instructs the princess to visit the oceanside to pray for blessings. Here Poseidon appears and couples with her. Thus, Aethra is impregnated by both a king and a god, so the child has dual paternity.

When the child, Theseus, comes of age, he is instructed to remove a huge boulder to inherit his kingly father’s sword and sandals, and journey to Athens to claim his rightful princely birthright. The journey is long and arduous, fraught with death and danger, and Theseus proves his heroic worth by performing six labors, defeating evil villains who wish him harm by using their own evil techniques against them.

1.)         First, Theseus defeats the brigand Periphetes, the bronze club wielder, and lame legged, like his father, Hephaestus.

2.)         Next, he kills Pityocamptes, who would tie his victims to two bowed pine trees, releasing them and tearing the victims apart.

3.)         Third, he overcomes a creature; the Crommyonian Sow

4.)         Fourth, he outwits Sciron, who would push victims off a cliff to be eaten by a giant turtle.

5.)         Fifth he faces Cercyon at the holy sight of Eleusis, who challenged passers to wrestling matches. Theseus uses untold power and technique to achieve victory; and is thus credited as the originator of the sport of wrestling.

6.)         Sixth, he overcomes Procrustes, who had two beds in his home, one too short and one too long. IF the guest was too short, Procrustes would stretch him through torture to fit, or if the guest was too tall, the villain would chop off the guest’s feet.

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