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	Troezen, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Troezen is a city of southeastern Argolis, on the Saronic Gulf.
		The sons of Troezen 1, Anaphlystus and Sphettus, emigrated to Attica.
		For when Theseus was declared successor to the throne of Athens, the 50 sons of Pallas 5 (son of Pandion 4, son of Cecrops 2, son of Erechtheus, son of Pandion 2, son of Erichthonius 2 [see Athens]), would not accept him as king, and therefore went to war, being defeated and killed by Theseus.
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	Troezen - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Troezen (TREE-zun, Greek: Τροιζήν), modern: Troizina or Trizina is a small town in the northeastern Peloponnese, located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana.
		According to Greek mythology, Troezen was the place where Aethra, a princess of Troezen, slept with both Aegeus and Poseidon the same night, and fell pregnant with the great Greek hero Theseus.
		Troezen is also the setting of the Euripides tragedy Hippolytus, which recounts the story of the eponymous son of Theseus who becomes the subject of the love of his stepmother, Phaedra.
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	Troezen - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Troezen (TREE-zun, Greek: Τροιζήν), modern: Troizina or Trizina is a city in Argolis located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana.
		In Greek mythology, Troezen was ruled by King Aegeus and was the birthplace of Theseus.
		The temple of Isis was made by the Halicarnassians in Troezen, because this is their mother-city, but the image of Isis was dedicated by the people of Troezen.
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		In his reign, Troezen and Pittheus, who are called the sons of Pelops, and may be regarded as Achaean princes, settled in the country, and divided the power with Aetius.
		The most important part of the territory was the fertile maritime plain, in which Troezen stood, and which was bounded on the south by a range of mountains, terminating in the promontories Scyllaeum and Bucephala, the most easterly points of the Peloponnesus.
		The high rocky peninsula of Methana, which belonged to the territory of Troezen and is united to the mainland by a narrow isthmus, is described in a separate article.
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		Troezen, (Troizen), a son of Pelops, and founder of the town of Troezen or Troezene.
		As Hippolytus, leaving Troezen, was driving his chariot along the seashore, a monster, sent by Poseidon from the deep, terrified his horses; they burst away in fury, heedless of their driver, dashed the chariot to pieces, and dragged along Hippolytus, entangled in the reins, until he died.
		When Troezen and Pittheus came to Aetius there were three kings instead of one, but the sons of Pelops enjoyed the balance of power.
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	Troezen
		According to Greek mythology, Aegeus, king of Athens visited Troezen on his way back from a visit to the Delphic oracle.
		Pittheus, king of Troezen made Aegeus drunk, and partnered him with his daughter Aethra.
		Legend has it that Aethra slept with Poseidon the same night, and she fell pregnant with the great Greek hero Theseus.
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	THESEUS - LoveToKnow Article on THESEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was given out that the childs father was Poseidon, the great god of Troezen, and that Aethra raised a temple to Athena Apaturia, at which Troezenian maids used to dedicate their girdles before marriage.
		For his tutor and guardian young Theseus had one Cannidas, to whom, down to Plutarchs time, the Athenians were wont to sacrifice a fl ram on the eve of the festival of Theseus.
		The birth of Theseus at Troezen points to the immigration of an lonian family or tribe.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TH/THESEUS.htm (1729 words)

	Encyclopedia: Eleni Konsolaki
		Troezen (TREE-zun) is a city in Argolis located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana.
		In the lart years, she investigated the Mycenaean-built Acropolis Magoula near Galatas next to the island of Poros.
		She discovered several Mycenaean buildings which show that the Troezen area did not only have a great importance in the ancient times, after a few researches, the connections of the Mycenaean and the Minoan epochs came closer.
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	History of the World: Age Of Fable Or Beauties Of Mythology: Chapter XX: Theseus - Daedalus - Castor And Pollux.@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Theseus was the son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and of Aethra, daughter of the king of Troezen.
		He was brought up at Troezen, and when arrived at manhood, was to proceed to Athens and present himself to his father.
		Aegeus, on parting from Aethra, before the birth of his son, placed his sword and shoes under a large stone, and directed her to send his son to him when he became strong enough to roll away the stone and take them from under it.
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	Science Fair Projects - Hippolytus (play)
		The action of the play is at Troezen, near Athens.
		Theseus, the king of Athens, has been away for a year in order to atone for a crime.
		The chorus, consisting of young married women of Troezen, enters, describing how Phaedra is not eating or sleeping.
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	King Pittheus of Troezen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Troezen was not fifty miles by water from Athens, and the purple-peaked island of AEgina lay between them; but to the people of that early time the distance seemed very great, and it was not often that ships passed from one place to the other.
		Then one morning, when the gardens of Troezen were full of roses and the heather was green on the hills, a babe was born to AEthra-a boy with a fair face and strong arms and eyes as sharp and as bright as the mountain eagle's.
		Soon the old city of Troezen was left far behind, and he came to the great marshes, where the ground sank under him at every step, and green pools of stagnant water lay on both sides of the narrow pathway.
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	Phaedra, Greek Mythology Link.
		For Hippolytus 4 lived at Troezen, where he was being reared by Pittheus, since Theseus neither wished him to be the subject of his children by Phaedra nor king in their stead.
		Others say that Theseus and Phaedra were self-exiled in Troezen on account of the death of the Pallantides, a faction that revolted against Theseus, being violently repressed by him.
		For when Hippolytus 4 left Troezen and was in his way to Argos, the bull appeared that Poseidon sent from the waves, causing the horses of his chariot to be seized by terror, and the driver—tangled in the reins—, to be dashed against the rocks.
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	House of Pelops
		His son, Pittheus and Troezen ruled in Troezen, while Alcathous had succeeded Megareus in Megara.
		He was the brother of Troezen, Atreus, Thyestes, Alcathous, and several sisters.
		Originally the kingdom of Troezen, were two separate towns, Hypereia and Antheia, when Pittheus and Troezen settle on the land.
	www.timelessmyths.com /classical/pelops.html (4027 words)

	Geographia: Peloponnesus
		Troezen was a seaport city in southeastern Argolis, on the Saronic Gulf.
		At first, the land around Troezen was called Oraea by Orus, the first king of Troezen, and then changed to Althepa, by his grandson, Althepus.
		On this land, there were two towns, called Hypereia and Antheia, when Pittheus and Troezen (sons of Pelops) settled in the land.
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	Theseus
		After the birth of their son Aegeus had Aethra keep Theseus at Troezen, because he did not want to take his son back to Attica where his nephews were attempting to cause disorder.
		Before leaving Troezen Aegeus hid a sword and a pair of sandals beneath a rock, advising Aethra not to tell the child the secret of his birth until he was old enough to retrieve these things himself.
		As Hippolytus was driving his chariot in the region of Troezen a monster rose from the sea and so frightened the horses that they broke loose and dragged Hippolytus to his death.
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	Aethra, Greece, Greek mythology
		Daughter of king Pittheus of Troezen, who was the son of Pelops and brother of Atreus and Thyestes.
		King Aegeus of Athens came to Troezen after he had taken a journey to Delphi to find out why he did not have any children, and was invited to stay with king Pittheus.
		She also a custom in Troezen that all girls must dedicate their girdles to Athena when they got married.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/aethra.htm (442 words)

	LucasForums - View Single Post - after the game ends
		Troezen picked up a few small guns and a large machine gun and a load of ammo.
		The one that Tara said she needed to -" Troezen gasped, he nearly said about the bluff she would be doing to Adam.
		"She said that she needed to find you and stop you remaking the game." Troezen was lying, but he had a gun aimed at his forhead and he was not used to the pressure.
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	Cheshire: Euripidean Geography in Seneca’s Phaedra
		Coffey and Mayer 1990 178 criticize Seneca’s appropriation of this catalogue, reasoning that while the features of the landscape suit the setting of Euripides’ version in Troezen, they are inappropriate to the Athenian setting of Seneca’s drama.
		In Euripides’ Hippolytus, the messenger describes the bull’s rising from the sea as Hippolytus flees north from Troezen.
		The giant wave that carries the bull within it obscures geographical features along the coast of the Saronic Gulf: the shores of Sciron (just west of Megara), the Corinthian Isthmus, and the rock of Asclepius (unidentified, but presumed to be in the vicinity of Epidaurus; cf.
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		It was by lifting a boulder that Theseus, grandson of the king of Troezen, first proved himself a hero.
		Setting out from Troezen, his birthplace, the first community of any size through which he passed was Epidaurus.
		They built a great tomb for him and said that it would be a sanctuary for slaves and all people who are helpless, in memory of one who through his life had been the protector of the defenseless.
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	Hippolytus Study Guide
		Trozen: usually spelled Troezen, this town was on the southeastern coast of Greece, about 30 miles east of Argos.
		Pittheus: king of Troezen and grandfather of Theseus.
		Pausanias goes on to report that the temple of Aphrodite the Spy overlooked the course and it was from this temple that Phaedra would watch Hippolytus practice his driving.
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	Old Greek Stories - The Adventures of Theseus (By James Baldwin)
		Then one morning, when the gardens of Troezen were full of roses and the heather was green on the hills, a babe was born to AEthra–a boy with a fair face and strong arms and eyes as sharp and as bright as the mountain eagle’s.
		Then she told him who his father was, and why he had left them in Troezen, ands how he had said that when the lad was strong enough to lift the great stone, he must take the sword and sandals and go and seek him in Athens.
		And with blessings and tears the king and AEthra followed him to the city gates, and watched him until his tall form was lost to sight among the trees which bordered the shore of the sea.
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	Theseus, Greek Mythology Link.
		Theseus, king of Athens, punished the bandits that infested the road between this city and Troezen; he slew the Minotaur in Crete, and thanklessly abandoned the woman who had helped him.
		He died in exile, but when he still was a ruler, he piously aided the Argives in recovering for burial the bodies of those who had fallen during the war of the SEVEN AGAINST THEBES.
		When King Aegeus 1 of Athens came to Troezen, King Pittheus (son of Pelops 1) made him drunk and caused him to lie with his daughter Aethra 2.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/Theseus.html (2788 words)

	c. 450. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		Over the winter the Athenians and Spartans concluded a Thirty Years' Peace.
		Megara was returned to the Peloponnesian League, Troezen and Achaea became independent, Aegina was to be a tributary to Athens but autonomous, and disputes were to be settled by arbitration.
		The failure of the anti-Spartan policy of Pericles led to an attempt to ostracize him, which failed.
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	CliffsNotes::Phaedra:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Hippolytus is the son of Theseus, king of Troezen and Athens, by his first love, the Amazon Antiope.
		Theseus is now married to Phaedra, the daughter of his old enemy, Minos of Crete, but he has been gone from Troezen now for more than six months, and his son is determined to go in search of him.
		Hippolytus abruptly cuts off this disrespectful allusion to his father, and says that since his marriage to Phaedra, Theseus has been faithful to her.
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	TMTh:: AETHRA OF TROEZEN
		Aethra was the daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen, the wife of Aegeus, king of Athens, and the mother of Theseus.
		She taught arithmetic (reckoning) to the children of Troezen, using the Cretan/Mycenaean system which remained in use until the 6th century BC.
		This system was extremely complicated, as each symbol had to be repeated many times and the number zero had not yet been invented.
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	Aegeus
		In the morning, Aegeus learned that she was Pittheus' daughter and understood what had happened.
		During this time, Aethra had born a son, Theseus, who was raised in Troezen by Pittheus.
		Aethra and Pittheus concealed his parentage, and Pittheus spread a rumor that the boy's father was actually the god Poseidon.
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	LucasForums - View Single Post - Godmode War
		Troezen was punching and punching the program creator, but no blood, no bruses, no mark of injury to be seen.
		Eventually Troezen's hand ripped through the skin and found a heart.
		Troezen looked at his victim and wondered how many more people would have to die ain order for him to escape, how many people were hunting for him and how many people were comming in to the war zone?
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	THESEUS: A HERO OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY. Essay Sample. Free term papers for college students
		He was the son of Aegeus, king of Athens, and Aethra, princess of Troezen, and daughter of Pittheus, king of Troezen.
		Before Theseus was born his father Aegeus left Aethra in Troezen of Argolis and returned to Athens before he was born.
		But before he left king Aegeus put his sword and his pair of sandals under a large rock and said to Aethra that when Theseus was old enough to lift the heavy rock that Theseus should take the sword and sandals and come to see him in Athens.
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