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Answer the following questions :
(a) Whom did Aegeus meet one day ?
(b) What would Aethra do every year after her son's twelfth birthday ?
(c) What kind of man was Theseus when he was eighteen years old ?
(d) What dangers did Theseus face on his way to Athens ?
(e) Who had defeated Athens ?
What did the ruler of Crete demand from Athens ?
(g) Who was Minotaur ?
Answers
Answer:
1)Aegeus met Aethra one day in a faraway countryside of the kingdom
2)Aethra would take her son to the pit on the hilltop every year for moving the stone from the pit.
3)Theseus was strong, wise and young man when he was eighteen years old
4)When Theseus arrived in Athens, he had the misfortune of being recognized by the wrong person: not by his father Aegeus, but by his then-wife, the sorceress Medea.
5)Through cunning strategy, Lysander totally defeated the Athenian fleet, in 405 BC, at the Battle of Aegospotami, destroying 168 ships and capturing some three or four thousand Athenian sailors.
In Greek mythology, the people of Athens were at one point compelled by King Minos of Crete to choose 14 young noble citizens (seven young men and seven maidens) to be offered as sacrificial victims to the half-human, half-taurine monster Minotaur to be killed in retribution for the death of Minos' son Androgeos.
6)In Greek mythology, the Minotaur is a mythical creature portrayed in Classical times with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".