Troezen
Americannoun
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Theseus prays to his father, the sea god Poseidon, to destroy Hippolytus, meanwhile banishing his son from Troezen.
From Time Magazine Archive
He said he would stay yet a little longer in Troezen, for that the elders of the city would manage things well at home; and so the ship returned without him.
From Old Greek Stories by Baldwin, James
Then when there was nothing more to say, he kissed his mother and bade his grandfather good-by, and went out of Troezen towards the trackless coastland which lay to the west and north.
From Old Greek Stories by Baldwin, James
It is some confirmation of this view that within the precinct of Hippolytus at Troezen there were worshipped two female powers named Damia and Auxesia, whose connexion with the fertility of the ground is unquestionable.
From The Golden Bough by Frazer, James George, Sir
"I am he," said Theseus; "and I come from old Troezen, on the other side of the Saronic Sea."
From Old Greek Stories by Baldwin, James
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