The Dark Truth About Theseus | Greek Mythology Explained

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I just keep thinking about how originally, "hero" just meant someone of divine birth. I wonder where along the lines we started thinking it meant someone good.

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Real

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It doesn't necessarily mean someone of divine birth [though heroes do usually have divine lineage in their ancestry, it may not be their parentage]. In context, a hero is someone who is capable of great feats [regardless of the morality of those feats] and suffers some form of tragedy. It just becomes more "believable" that a single person can beat a whole army or whatever if they happen to be the kid of a god [which is why they often were divine], but there are non divine-born heroes, like Diomedes, Agamemnon, Ajax [the Great, of Homeric myth], or even Sisyphus [considered an absurd hero, who cheated death twice, but was punished for it].

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beautiful comments by both babylon and DogMechanic. great addition for context to the video

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So Helen of Sparta basically spent her whole life being kidnapped by men. I know she has been mentioned in videos before but it would be nice to see a video dedicated to her story. I'll check to see if you have after posting this lol

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Basically her story is in the story of troy

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@@SomeOne-xj6ieher story starts long before Troy lmfao she’s the sister of castor and Pollux, born from a different egg with her twin sister at the same time those two were born

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@@kaleanaking5292 thats not her story its just some family facts about her

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@@SomeOne-xj6ieThe story of Troy is only a part of her story. Helen lived a full life before and after Tory that deserves to be told.

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@@SomeOne-xj6ie her story starts with her birth dude, everyone’s does.

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Ariadne by Jennifer Saint was an eye opening book about Theseus

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I remember the story Theseus when I was in high school. Even read books on Greek mythology. Watching documentary on Greek myths, on you utupe channels. Even the film. Lol 😂... But I have never a full story like this. True. a lot of the storys have been cut out in one way or another. I is this the original story or all mushed story put together. Whatever. Magnificent story telling. 👏👏☕👍

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There is something very poetic about Theseus losing his life in the domain of his actual father. You would think Posiedon would come to his sons rescue but he was like nah I'm good.

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I think it's ironic that Athena is the protector god of women when you consider the whole Medusa storyline. She did a great job of not only failing to protect her but also totally just victim-blaming her and making her a total monster who later gets slain by another hero and worn as a shield ornament. I don't know who has it worst, her or Scylla. I feel like Aries does a far better job of protecting women and everyone hates Aries for whatever reason.

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I don’t know why King Aegean couldn’t have waited until everyone got off the ship to figure out if his son was dead or not instead of just throwing himself off a cliff just because he saw a black sail,but he didn’t actually check

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man had a flair for the dramatic

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hope you enjoy 😊🥹

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“Cause that’s what Heroes do” 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭

[@Briefed_Mythology]

I swear I was so tempted to use that 10 times in this video

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thanks for listening to my earlier comment!! But this video is fire and a theseus video was long overdue

[@rebeccaaugustine8628]

I don't know if C.S. Lewis originally said this or quoted it, but it ran something along these lines, "It seems the great virtues of the heroes of antiquity were actually great vices!"

[@Briefed_Mythology]

oooh I never heard that quote. I like it - I like it a lot

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Hades actually does a beautiful job weaving the real mythology into the game

[@LionOfGondor]

A few days ago when you posted a photo I almost said it was Theseus but I decided not to say that then because I couldn’t see any horn symbolism. I need to trust my gut more often.

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“Finally! My time to shine!” - Bellerophon

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Heroes have only become good people pretty recently in history before they were just powerful people who helped people from time to time

[@Briefed_Mythology]

yup, this is true. very good comment.

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The amount of times I hear about demigods, it made me think that I’ve maybe never heard about demigoddess. Are there any and if so, what stories do they have?

[@wolfsbanealphas617]

Helena of Troy

[@natashawho5508]

@@wolfsbanealphas617 Thanks for the answer. I didn’t ask the proper question. I know there were plenty of demigods and demigoddesses, but are there any with superhuman powers (other than beauty)?

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The first two minutes of this video was definitely…traumatic 😵‍💫

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The Waynes Bros clip? 🤌🏽✨

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We need a Surviving Zeus documentary.

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bro that made me laugh 😭

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Been waiting for this one.

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THESEUS was also " the one who was thinking AFTER instead BEFORE of his acting ......

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If some dude is going after Persephone there going to have hell to pay

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[@Briefed_Mythology]

thank you 😊

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Damn, the homie got eaten alive. Wasn't even his idea to go down to Hades

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The first secs of this video actually had me spitting what?

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I get u bruv

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Love the thumbnail

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Do a video about Achilles!

[@Briefed_Mythology]

very soon - I love the story of achilles actually, so I'm looking forward to doing that

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Theseus had to learn the lesson how you get them is how you lose them

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8:25 what’s this movie

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only God forgives, I think it came out 2013 or 2014

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Please I would love to see you do Hellen of Troy.

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Family reunion with these gods and goddesses got to be epic 😂

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You should do one on Jason and the argonauts.