https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks An amazing story en-us 2020-08-13 01:45:32 UTC 2025-11-05 12:09:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3f0.png 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421853378 Theseus was a clever, strong and happy young man, who lived with his mother in Troezen, in Greece. One day, Theseus helped his mother move a big rock in the garden and he looked under the rock at the sword of a king, and his mother told him that it now belonged to him; since he was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and of King Aegeus, a king who lived in Athens; she asked him to go see his father Aegeus, so he gave a difficult walk of ten days at night, and King Aegeus told him that he was his son, by showing that he moved the rock and obtained the sword from him.]]> 2022-12-15 13:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421853378 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421861901 Theseus went for a walk in the garden, at night, and saw his father sad, so he asked him why he was crying, his father told him that every year, fourteen young Athenians went to Crete as food for the Minotaur, because King Minos, king of Crete, had a son, who was the Minotaur, a kind of half bull and half man, king Minos had two sons, but one was killed by king Aegeus and his kingdom, in a fight, causing them to lose the fight, so, Theseus  got angry and told his father that tomorrow he would sail to the island of Crete, since he wanted to fight the Minotaur to death.]]> 2022-12-15 13:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421861901 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421926688 2022-12-15 14:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2421926688 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422014100 Theseus made a promise to his father, in the morning, which consisted in observing that the ship had only white sails, but not black sails, as a sign that he was going to return home again, after killing to the Minotaur,  King Minos and his daughter, Ariadne, were waiting for the ship, and suddenly, King Minos asked Theseus who he was, and he told him that he was the son of King Aegeus and Poseidon, king of the sea, but King Minos didn't believe him, so he challenged him to find his ring in the sea, Theseus entered the water and asked for help, so two white dolphins approached him with the ring, and Theseus gave him the ring.]]> 2022-12-15 15:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422014100 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422015983 At night, Ariadne went to Theseus's room, and gave him a knife and a rope to kill the Minotaur, since she didn't like her father and being in Crete, the Minotaur was sleeping, and Theseus decided to kill him before morning, so he asked Ariadne to help him take his Athenian friends to the ship; he being able to kill the two men, who guarded the door, with his knife, to go to the labyrinth of the Minotaur.]]> 2022-12-15 15:51:37 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422015983 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422016556 Theseus reached the door of the Minotaur's labyrinth, and killed the Minotaur with his knife, making him fall dead to the ground, Theseus returned to the gate, to sail the ship to Athens, with Ariadne and the young Athenians, however, the ship stopped on the island of Naxos, as Theseus asked Ariadne to get off there, because he didn't promised her that she could go to Athens and be his wife, also he reminded her that she wanted to get away from Crete.]]> 2022-12-15 15:51:56 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422016556 61308977 https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422016950 Theseus and his friends sailed back to Athens all the day, at night, Theseus told them to remove the black sails and put in the white sails, so that his father would know that he defeated the Minotaur, but they couldn't, as the ship was very close to Athens. On the same day, King Aegeus was in his garden, and he saw the ship with black sails, so he thought that his son was killed by the Minotaur, however, a short time later, he was died; Theseus was named as the new king of Athens, but he continued to cry for his father. ]]> 2022-12-15 15:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/61308977/Bookmarks/wish/2422016950