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===Opera, film, television and video games=== {{more citations needed|section|date=May 2021}} * ''[[Thésée (Lully)|Thésée]]'' (1675) is an early French opera by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] to a [[libretto]] by [[Philippe Quinault]], based on Ovid.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lully's Thésée |url=https://bemf.org/recordings/lullys-thesee/ |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=Boston Early Music Festival |language=en-US}}</ref> * ''[[Teseo]]'' (1713) is an [[opera seria]] by [[George Frideric Handel]] to a libretto by [[Nicola Francesco Haym]], based on Quinault.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 December 2008 |title=Handel's "Teseo" – an introduction |url=https://bachtrack.com/handel-teseo |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=bachtrack.com |language=en}}</ref> * The opera ''[[Hippolyte et Aricie]]'' (1733) by [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]], based on Racine, features Theseus as a character.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} * The musical comedy ''[[By Jupiter]]'' (1942) by [[Rodgers and Hart]], based on the novel [[The Warrior's Husband]] by Julian F. Thompson, features Theseus as one of the two leading men, who falls in love with [[Antiope (Amazon)|Antiope]], in a story radically different from the one in Greek mythology. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://masterworksbroadway.com/music/by-jupiter/ | title=By Jupiter }}</ref> * Fictionalized versions of Theseus and the Minotaur appear in the 1960 Italian [[sword-and-sandal]] film ''[[Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete|Teseo contro il Minotauro]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/the-minotaur-the-wild-beast-of-crete/|title=The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete |work=Letter Box|access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref> and the 2006 horror film ''[[Minotaur (film)|Minotaur]]''.<ref name="allmoviedvd">{{cite web|title=Minotaur (2005) – Jonathan English|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/minotaur-v342810/releases|publisher=AllMovie|access-date=11 May 2022}}</ref> * The film ''[[Immortals (2011 film)|Immortals]]'' (2011), a unique and modernized adaptation of the legend, features [[Henry Cavill]] as Theseus in a battle to save humanity from the evil man-King Hyperion, who seeks to release imprisoned [[Titans]] to contest the Gods.<ref>{{Citation |last=Singh |first=Tarsem |title=Immortals |date=11 November 2011 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1253864/ |type=Action, Drama, Fantasy |publisher=Relativity Media, Virgin Produced, Mark Canton Productions |access-date=13 December 2022}}</ref> * The video game ''[[Hades (video game)|Hades]]'' has Theseus, along with the [[Minotaur]] (named Asterius in game) acting as the bosses of [[Elysium]], the third level of the game.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Stacey Henley |title=The joy of loving Theseus from Hades |url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-joy-of-loving-theseus-from-hades |access-date=15 May 2024 |website=[[Rock Paper Shotgun]] |date=29 October 2020}}</ref>
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