The deuteragonist could have played the nurse, Jason, and messenger, with the tritagonist playing the tutor, Creon, and Aegeus. |
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He 'forgets' to change the colour of his ship's sails from black to white, thus wrongly signalling to his father Aegeus that he has been killed by the Minotaur. |
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But he forgot his promise, and when Aegeus saw the black sail, he flung himself from the Acropolis and died. |
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Knowing that he was going to be separated from his son at his birth, Aegeus hid gold sandals and a sword under a rock. |
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His father Aegeus let Theseus depart only with a heavy heart and asked him to set sails in a colour agreed between them upon his successful return, so that the happy completion of the venture would be visible from the shore. |
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In some versions of the myth of Theseus, the Attic hero who succeeded his father Aegeus as king of Athens, his mother, Aethra, was impregnated by the sea god Poseidon while Aegeus slept. |
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On his arrival in Athens, Theseus found his father married to the sorceress Medea, who recognized Theseus before his father did and tried to persuade Aegeus to poison him. |
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Theseus had promised Aegeus that if he returned successful from Crete, he would hoist a white sail in place of the black sail with which the fatal ship bearing the sacrificial victims to the Minotaur always put to sea. |
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