By: Sam Chase, Katharine
Thibodeau, Carly Fagan, and Matt
Lloyd

Original World
• Theseus grew up, raising himself without a father
.
“Theseus grew up to be strong, able, courageous, intelligent and wise”.

Theseus’s mother brought him to his father’s rock, where he was called to begin his journey.

Theseus accepted the call for adventure.

• Theseus got his father’s sword he found at the rock.
• Theseus also got his father’s winged sandals he found at the rock.

Crossing the Threshold/ Gatekeeper’s Test
When Theseus first traveled into
Athens.

• On Theseus’s journey to Athens he encountered:
1-robber-club carrier
2-cinus-pine bender
3-wild, huge sow
4-Sceiron-scheming robber
5-King Ceryon
6-stretcher
“The land route sheltered such a frightening collection of robbers and murderers that no man dared to rule them”.
• Theseus was able to beat all of these evil people.

When Theseus first encountered his father
.

A tonement with Father
• Theseus had to prove who his father was during dinner.
• He used
Aegeus’s sword he got at the rock, and the ring of
Mino’s.

Meeting with the Goddess or Woman as
Temptress
• Theseus met a goddess, Adriane.
She helped him conquer the Minotaur by giving him a ball of thread that they attached to the door.

Refusal Of Return or Magic Flight or Rescue from
Without
Wanted to come home

Crossing the Return
Threshold
Came home on a boat.
“Because Theseus was so confident that he would kill the Minotaur,
Aegus gave the captain of the ship a white sail to be hoisted in place of the black one upon the return voyage if Theseus’s mission were successful”.

He took his dads place as king

He became the hero and the king.