A Book to Understand Theseus
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As the son of King Aegeus of Athens, Theseus followed the example of Hercules and killed six villains on his way to Athens overland. After seeing through Medea's plot, he beheaded the Minotaur, but due to negligence, his father threw himself into the sea (the origin of the name of the Aegean Sea). After unifying Attica and establishing the Athenian democracy, this legendary monarch encountered marital tragedies one after another: his Amazonian wife died in the war, and his step-wife Phaedra framed him, leading to the tragic deaths of his parents and children. In his later years, he failed to rob the underworld and was eventually pushed off a cliff by the king of the exile. Hundreds of years later, the Athenians welcomed back the hero's remains. His life is a classic footnote of heroism and impermanence of fate in ancient Greek civilization.
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