Aethra

Role: mother of Theseus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.10

🌐 Also appears in: Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Aethra)

Life events

• Pollux and Castor seized Helen and carried Aethra captive after taking Aphidnae.(Apollodorus, Library 3.10 · 📍 Aphidnae)
  • With: Pollux Castor Helen
  • “But when Theseus was in Hades, Pollux and Castor marched against Aphidnae, took the city, got possession of Helen, and led Aethra, the mother of Theseus, away captive.”
• Aethra gave birth to Theseus, son of Aegeus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.16)
  • With: Aegeus Theseus
  • “Aethra bore to Aegeus a son Theseus”

Apollodorus, Library 3.10

• child: Theseus “Aethra, the mother of Theseus”
• parent: Theseus “and led Aethra, the mother of Theseus, away captive.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.15

• parent: Pittheus “Pittheus, son of Pelops, who, understanding the oracle, made him drunk and caused him to lie with his daughter Aethra”
• with Aegeus (interaction) “made him drunk and caused him to lie with his daughter Aethra”
• with Poseidon (interaction) “In the same night Poseidon also had connexion with her”

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