The Dark Truth About Theseus | Greek Mythology Explained

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Time to ruin another hero from Greek Mythology: The minotaur slaying Theseus. You already saw the title, and yes... Theseus really did that. Though... to be fair, some say Helen was seven at the time, some say she was twelve, and yes... it doesn't make it any better.
Why would Theseus do that? Well... would it be any explanation if I told you he was Poseidon's son? If you know, you know. And if you don't know... this and more of Theseus' atrocities (and the occasional heroics, like the while minotaur thing...) is what we will be getting into in this video, this episode of Keeping Up With The Greek Gods: The Age of Heroes:

Episode 3 Of KUWTGG Season 2: The Age Of Heroes — Theseus

Notes:

There is a little bit less contradictions and multiverse shenanigans when it comes to Theseus — which is very convenient for me. Still, there are notes on today's script...
For one, I don't discuss all of Theseus' adventures — he was involved in more tales than what I cover, some of which are considered 'canon' and some of which are just regional tales that vastly differ, since Theseus was a popular hero and thus involved in many tales. If Herakles was Superman and Perseus was Batman, think of Theseus as something like... Spiderman. Actually, that is fairly accurate since Theseus' heroics also came when he was a teenager.
So with that in mind, there is one story that I left out because it would have gotten overly complex to explain the origin of his antagonists in this tale:
Theseus settled the conflict between the centaurs and the sons of Ixion.
Ixion was a king that was once punished by Zeus for trying to sleep with Hera yeah, (this is the short version) and he later fathered the race of centaurs (yeah, there's more to this), and since he also had human offspring that weren't massive fans of the half-horse-half-human centaurs, a war for the heritage of Ixion's lands broke out, and... well, Theseus settled that war.
Really wanted to include that story, but maybe I'll do a different video on beasts from Greek Mythology in which I'll cover it.

As for Theseus' marriage to Antiope: In some versions of this tale, Theseus' wife is actually the queen of the Amazons herself — Hippolyta. It's just that that version doesn't really work in context with Herakles, since Herakles kill Hippolyta, so she can't die in Theseus' war against the Amazons.

Other than that, just for reference... when Theseus kidnapped Helen he was already roughly 50 years old. Yeah... just food for thought to make this whole situation even worse.

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Footage:
In the beginning and throughout, I used a clip from Immortals, then Troy for the Helen of Troy bit, and other than that there's a clip from Scarface, the Marvel movies, and the Ryan Gosling beatdown is from Only God Forgives.

Music:
Asher Fulero - Ceremonial Library
Asher Fulero - Surrender
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (by Beethoven)
Bach - C Major Prelude
Esther Abrami - No.1 A Minor Waltz
Cooper Cannell - Drunken Sailor
Josh Kirsch_Media Right Productions - It's Coming
Wahneta Meixsell - Gymnopedie No. 3
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