And it is also told that before returning to Athens, Theseus abandoned at the mercy of wild beasts Phaedra's sister Ariadne, whom he had taken with him promising her marriage. Yet some say that Theseus killed Deucalion 2, and crushed his bones when he was in Crete. Although one of these women bore him a son Hippolytus 4, he nevertheless married Phaedra, whom he received from her brother Deucalion 2—son of King Minos 2 of Crete and his successor—who thus wished to seal the friendship between the two countries, and form an alliance between Crete and Athens. Having joined Heracles 1 in his expedition against the AMAZONS, Theseus brought back captive to Athens either Antiope 4 or Hippolyte 3. This happened in Troezen, say some, or in Athens, say others. Since he refused her, and her passion for him became known, she hanged herself, leaving a letter in which she charged her stepson of having assaulted her. Phaedra married King Theseus of Athens and gave him two sons but she also fell in love with her stepson Hippolytus 4. West Pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, c.
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