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Mythological people from Attica (3 C, 115 P) A. ... Theseus (5 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Attic mythology" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
To journey to Athens, Theseus could choose to go by sea (which was the safe way) or by land, following a dangerous path around the Saronic Gulf, where he would encounter a string of six entrances to the Underworld, [iii] each guarded by a chthonic enemy. Young, brave, and ambitious, Theseus decided to go alone by the land route and defeated ...
The division attributed to Theseus is always spoken of by ancient authorities as a division of the entire population; but Georg Busolt maintained the view that the three classes represent three elements in the Attic nobility, namely, the city nobility, the landed nobility and the commercial nobility, and exclude altogether the mass of the ...
Thorikos or Thoricus (Ancient Greek: Θορικός) was a city, and later a deme in the southern portion of ancient Attica, one of the twelve original settlements that were united in the synoikismos attributed to Theseus to form Archaic Athens. It was later a deme of the phyle of Acamantis.
Another version states Antiope waged war on Theseus to avenge him marrying Phaedra. In some myths, Hippolyta was killed during the ninth labor when Heracles attempted to obtain her girdle peacefully until the Amazons attacked him, and Theseus, who had joined Hercules during his expedition, abducted Hippolyta's sister Antiope, who was an Amazon ...
Where foreign land ownership factors most in Iowa is in wind and solar energy production, rather than crop and livestock production. In 2021, renewable energy companies held about 90% of the state ...
Theseus and Procrustes, Attic red-figure neck-amphora, 470–460 BC, Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 2325). In Greek mythology, Procrustes (/ p r oʊ ˈ k r ʌ s t iː z /; Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]"), also known as Prokoptas, Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer") or Polypemon, was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked ...
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