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Theseus an archaic religious and social order a founding hero, considered by Athenians as their own great reformer

Theseus Story of Attica The first King --- Cecrops(half man half serpent) Erectheus(three daughters) Orithyia and Boreas cephalus and Procris another king of Athen ： Procne and Philomela

Theseus Birth father : Aegeus （埃勾斯） ---king of Athens （ no son) mother ： Aethra( 埃特拉） --- daughter of king Troezen ( 特洛曾国） place sword and sandals under a great rock 16 years old,lift the stone set out for Athens

Theseus Free the roads of giant Meets his father (wife Medea---sorceress) Kills the Minotaur

king of Athens The battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs The theft of Helen and Persephone

Oedipus Laius,the king of Thebes The temple of Apollo ‘You'll have a son,but he will be the one who kills u.' oedipus was luckly be raised up by another king. Accidentally killed his father. A Riddle ?

Oedipus Oedipus and the Sphinx

Oedipus "What has one voice, and is four-footed, two-footed and three-footed?"

After he made the right answer. he married his own mother without knowing it and became the king. Oedipus

The gods spread the plague to punish this place and Oedipus. Oedipus

He blinded himself,punished himself by the way more cruel than just die. Oedipus

Expression Oedipus Complex 恋母情结 It is a Freudian concept based on the Oedipus myth--suggests that young boys compete with the father for the mother's attention and may have subconscious sexual feelings regarding her.