Theseus (Up)

Just as Heracles was the chief hero of Peloponnesus，soTheseus was the most famous halfgod of Attlca．His father was king Aegeus of Athens and his mother a princessof Troezen．When he was still an infant his father left him in thecare of his mother and went back to his own kingdom．Before he left，Aegeus buried his sword and sandals under a hugestone，and told his mother to direct him to Athens as soon as he was big enough to lift the rock and take the hidden gifts with him. At the age of sixteen he became a strong young man，intelligent and with lots of nerve．Taking the sword from under the rock，he joyfully set out to look for his father．It was a journey of adventures．But he cleared the roads of various monsters hemet and appeared harmless in his father's palace at Athens．Little did he suspect that here would be an attempt on his life there．

King Aegeus had recently married Medea，a bad woman．She was anxious to have the Athenian throne for her own chil...