Theseus was a hero and king of Athens. His most notable accomplishments included killing the Minotaur and transforming his city into a major regional power.
Ariadne, daughter of Minos, was the Cretan princess who helped Theseus defeat the Minotaur. Abandoned by Theseus on the island of Naxos, she later married the god Dionysus.
The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull. The Minotaur was hidden from the world in the Labyrinth, a giant maze, where it was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus.
Antiope was one of the queens of the Amazons, a race of warrior women who lived near the Black Sea. After she was carried off by the Athenian hero Theseus, the Amazons sailed across the sea and invaded Athens in order to get her back.
Demophon, son of Theseus, was a Greek hero who ruled as joint king of Athens alongside his brother Acamas. Demophon and Acamas fought in the Trojan War; after the city was sacked, they rescued their grandmother Aethra from slavery.
The Crommyonian Sow, sometimes known as Phaea, was an unusually large and aggressive sow who plagued the town of Crommyon. The hero Theseus killed the beast while traveling to Athens to meet his father.
There are monsters that live in myths and others that live in the mind. The Minotaur, half-man and half-bull, has managed to live in both. His story begins in the twisting corridors of an ancient ...