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At a station on the outskirts of the city we left the train and followed an old guide to visit the Theseum, or Temple of Theseus, a large edifice built in simple Doric style. The plain columns and unadorned pediments express strength and simplicity rather than beauty.
And when they reached that place the master of the ship, thinking that what had been done was not in accordance with the will of King Minos, stayed the ship there. He waited until other ships came from Knossos. And when they came they brought word that Minos would not slay nor demand back Theseus nor the youths and maidens of Athens.
"She would prefer some classical piece! Phèdre, for instance." "Be it so." Bouvard set forth the theme: "It is about a queen whose husband has a son by another wife. She has fallen madly in love with the young man. Are we there? Start! "'Yes, prince! for Theseus I grow faint, I burn I love him!"
II. The sentimental absurdities of Pyramus and Thisbe are the occasion of some apt criticism which Shakespeare puts into the mouths of Hippolyta and Theseus: HIPPOLYTA. This is the silliest stuff that e'er I heard. THESEUS. The best in this kind are but shadows; and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them. HIPPOLYTA. It must be your imagination then, and not theirs.
Twenty against one they fought, and yet Theseus beat them all; and those who were left fled down into the town, where the people set on them, and drove them out, till Theseus was left alone in the palace, with AEgeus his new-found father.
Then he rose and said, "The wine is rich, and the wine-bearer fair. Let her pledge me first herself in the cup that the wine may be sweeter." Medeia turned pale and stammered, "Forgive me, fair hero, but I am ill and dare drink no wine." Theseus looked again into her eyes and cried, "Thou shalt pledge me in that cup or die!"
The cliffs are steep, and who can climb them? and there is no other road." But Theseus laid his hand upon the old man's mouth, and said, "There is no need to flee;" and he turned to go down the pass. "Do not tell him that I have warned you, or he will kill me by some evil death;" and the old man screamed after him down the glen; but Theseus strode on in his wrath.
Knowing by her arts who he was, and fearing the loss of her influence with her husband, if Theseus should be acknowledged as his son, she filled the mind of AEgeus with suspicions of the young stranger, and induced him to present him a cup of poison; but at the moment when Theseus stepped forward to take it, the sight of the sword which he wore discovered to his father who he was, and prevented the fatal draught.
As soon as they were arrived at Aphidnae, they overcame their enemies in a set battle, and then assaulted and took the town. And Hereas writes that it was Theseus himself that killed him, in witness of which he cites these verses concerning Alycus And Alycus, upon Aphidna's plain By Theseus in the cause of Helen slain.
In my assiduous reading of the classics, the chief places were held among the Greeks by the masculine and noble figures of Hector, Achilles, Theseus, Oedipus; among the Scots by Trenmor, Fingal, Cuchullin; and among the Romans by Caesar, Brutus, Titus, and Cato. These characters influenced me to incline toward a somewhat bombastic system of gesticulation and a turgid delivery.
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