person
Theseus
also: Theseus
Mythical king of Athens credited with the synoecism that gathered the Attic peoples into one city; Cicero cites it to illustrate the two patriae of place and citizenship.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.29 the words Theseus speaks in Euripides
Theseus, legendary king of Athens, here the speaker of lines from a lost play of Euripides on rehearsing future miseries in advance. Cicero translates them into Latin verse himself.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.50 Theseus seize the horns of the Marathonian bull
Theseus's capture of the wild bull that ravaged the plain of Marathon. Another heroic deed offered to show that courage need not rage.