CL 28 - Classical Mythology
Theseus and the myths of Crete

Erechtheus
Cecrops
Pandion and Creusa
Theseus, Greek hero, son of Aethra and Aegeus (or Poseidon)
Aegeus, his father, the king of Athens
Aethra, daughter of Pittheus 

King Minos and his wife Pasiphae
Ariadne, daughter of King Minos
Daedalus, Minoan inventor
Icarus
Minotaur
Androgeus, Minos's son

Scylla
Amphitrite
Hippolyte, the Amazon queen (or Antiope)
Hippolytus, her son with Theseus, accused of raping Phaedra
Phaedra, Ariadne's sister, Theseus's wife
Pirithous, king of the Lapiths
Hippodamia
Caeneus
Dioscuri: Castor and Pollux (Polydeuces)
Menestheus

Troezen, Epidaurus, Isthmus, Megara, Eleusis
Saronic Gulf
Skyros
Knossos

THE LABORS:
Periphetes at Epidaurus
Sinis at the Isthmus
Crommyonion sow
Sciron at Megara
Cercyon at Eleusis
Procrustes 

procrustean

 

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