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Theseus and the Minotaur by Graeme Davis

Author:Graeme Davis , Date: December 27, 2014 ,Views: 277

Theseus and the Minotaur by Graeme Davis

Author:Graeme Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Theseus and the Minotaur
ISBN: 9781472804068
Publisher: Osprey Publishing


A statue of Theseus in Syntagma Square, Athens. Theseus is credited with laying the foundations for the city’s future greatness. (Nikos Pavlakis / Alamy)

Plutarch also tells us that Theseus instituted the Panathenaic Games and festival to help bind together the people of his new Athenian commonwealth. This seems to be a contradiction, because earlier he tells how Androgeus came from Crete to take part in those games. However, other historical sources trace the origin of the Panathenaic Games to the reign of the tyrant Peisistratus in 556 BC, long after Theseus lived. Perhaps the Panathenaic Games of Plutarch’s time developed out of the older Pan-Athenian Games during the time of Peisistratus, and the story of Theseus was invoked to cloak them in an aura of tradition and historical respectability.



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