Theseus Road

myth:theseus_road

Coming of age, Theseus lifts the rock under which his father had hidden a sword and sandals, and journeys to Athens by the bandit-road, dealing each robber his own cruelty — Procrustes, who stretched or lopped guests to fit his bed, made to fit it himself. Like a young Heracles, he clears the road of its monsters. — Greek myth