Theseus, Ruiner of Women & All Around Awful Person
Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean
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The Origins of the Name of the Aegean Sea
Thesis abandons Ariadne on the island and proceeds to marry her sister Fidra because he's a god damn asshole. Thesis has impregnated a woman whose father he first killed and subsequently abandoned her and their child. He then kidnapped and also impregnated and abandoned Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. One might think he would be fresh out of awful intentions, but one would be wrong. Now it's just getting silly.
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