Aethra

Family: Troezen · Role: mother of Theseus · First appears: Theseus

Life events

• Aethra gave birth to Theseus, whose true parentage was concealed.(Theseus · 📍 Troezen)
  • With: Theseus
  • “When Aethra was delivered of a son, some say that he was immediately named Theseus, from the tokens which his father had put @ under the stone;”

Theseus

• child: Theseus “When Aethra was delivered of a son, some say that he was immediately named Theseus”
• ward: Helen “having sent his mother Aethra after to take care of her”
• parent: Pittheus “Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity of the oracle, prevailed upon him, it is uncertain whether by persuasion or deceit, to lie with his daughter Aethra.”
• with Aegeus (interaction) “Pittheus, therefore, taking advantage from the obscurity of the oracle, prevailed upon him, it is uncertain whether by persuasion or deceit, to lie with his daughter Aethra.”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.