Editing Theseus (section)

==Other stories and death of Theseus==

According to some sources,<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Theseus 1.9.16]</ref> Theseus also was one of the [[Argonauts]], although [[Apollonius of Rhodes]] states in the ''[[Argonautica]]''{{citation needed|reason=A secondary source is needed here, please|date=July 2019}} that Theseus was still in the underworld at this time. Both statements are inconsistent with [[Medea]] being Aegeus' wife by the time Theseus first came to Athens. With Phaedra, Theseus fathered [[Acamas (son of Theseus)|Acamas]], who was one of those who hid in the [[Trojan Horse]] during the [[Trojan War]]. Theseus welcomed the wandering [[Oedipus]] and helped [[Adrastus]] to bury the [[Seven against Thebes]].

[[Lycomedes]] of the island of [[Skyros]] threw Theseus off a cliff after he had lost popularity in Athens. In 475 BC, in response to an oracle, [[Cimon]] of Athens, having conquered Skyros for the Athenians, identified as the remains of Theseus "a coffin of a great corpse with a bronze spear-head by its side and a sword." (Plutarch, ''Life of Theseus'').<ref name="burkert85">{{cite book|last=Burkert|first=Walter|title=Greek Religion|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=1985|isbn=9780674362819|page=206}}</ref> The remains found by Cimon were reburied in Athens. The early modern name ''Theseion'' (Temple of Theseus) was mistakenly applied to the [[Temple of Hephaestus]] which was thought to be the actual site of the [[temenos|hero's tomb]].
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