The myth of Theseus
Theseus was the son of the king of Athens, Aegean. He went to Troezen in Argolis
and married there. When he went back home he put a sword and a pare
of sandals under a heavy stone; When Theseus was grown up he had to
lift the stone and grab the sword and sandals and come to Athens.
When Theseus was 16 years old he lifted the stone and grabbed the
sword and the sandals and went to Athens. The road to Athens was
verry dangerous in that time: there were terrifying giants, thieves
and monsters, but Theseus was a brave man and went to Athens. on
his road to Athens he met several monsters like Sinis: his nickname
was Pityokamtes, "the pinetree cracker". He tied people between two
pines and then let the two trees go; the people were totally teard
up ! Theseus did the same to the giant itself. Then he met Skeiron,
he used to force travellers to kiss his feet, than when they
kneeled he kicked them from a cliff. Theseus did also the same to
that monster. The third crook was named Prokrustus, he played very
a cruel games. He had two bedes, a big and a small bed. If he had a
long victim, he put him on the small bed and cut the extending
parts of the body of. If he had a small victim he put him on the
big bed and hammered on him until he fits in the long bed. Theseus
defeated him too. He arrived in Athens and was gratefuly accepted
in the palace of his father. But Athens was in truble: The were
defeated by king Minos of Crete. Because they had lost they had to
give 7 girls and 7 boys. They were locked up in the Labyrinth of
Crete. Theseus had desided to go to the Minotaur and kill him. He said to his
father: "I'll sail away with black sails and when I come back
allive I wil raise white sails." His father (Aegean) agreed and the
went to Crete. On the island the daughter of Minos, Ariadne felt in
love with Theseus. She gave him a ball of wool, he had to bind the
ball at the beginning of the Labyrinth and take the rest with him
so he could find the way back. Theseus killed the Minotaur and went
back home. But he forgot to change the sails. Meanwhile Aegean
waited on a cliff for the return of his son's ship. When he saw the
ship of his son he threw himself of the cliff, because he thought
that his son was dead ! That's how the Aegean see was created.
Theseus became king of Athens now and after these things he did
many, many great things.