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 ====== Theseus ======
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 <blockquote>BIRTH OF THESEUS
-[4.59.1] But since we have set forth the facts concerning Heracles and his descendants, it will be appropriate in this connexion to speak of **Theseus**, since he emulated the Labours of Heracles. **Theseus**, then, was born of Aethra, the daughter of Pittheus, and Poseidon, and was reared in Troezen at the home of Pittheus, his mother’s father, and after he had found and taken up the tokens138 which, as the myths relate, had been placed by Aegeus beneath a certain rock, he came to Athens. And taking the road along the coast, as men say, since he emulated the high achievements of Heracles, he set out performing Labours which would bring him both approbation and fame.
+[4.59.1] But since we have set forth the facts concerning Heracles and his descendants, it will be appropriate in this connexion to speak of **Theseus**, since he emulated the Labours of Heracles. **Theseus**, then, was born of Aethra, the daughter of Pittheus, and Poseidon, and was reared in Troezen at the home of Pittheus, his mother’s father, and after he had found and taken up the tokens which, as the myths relate, had been placed by Aegeus beneath a certain rock, he came to Athens. And taking the road along the coast, as men say, since he emulated the high achievements of Heracles, he set out performing Labours which would bring him both approbation and fame.
 THESEUS LABOURS, THE ROAD TO ATHENS
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 [4.60.1] It remains for us now to speak of the Minotaur which was slain by **Theseus**, in order that we may complete our account of the deeds of **Theseus**. But we must revert to earlier times and set forth the facts which are interwoven with this performance, in order that the whole narrative may be clear.
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-[[http://www.theoi.com/Text/DiodorusSiculus4D.html|Source]]</blockquote>
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+Source: Diodorus Siculus. Library of History (Books III - VIII). Translated by Oldfather, C. H. Loeb Classical Library Volumes 303 and 340. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1935.</blockquote>