[15] Ingram’s Saxon Chronicle.
[16] Gesta Stephani, ap. Duchesne, Script. Normann. p. 961, 2.
[17] William of Malmesbury, Hist. Novell. lib. ii.
[18] Henry of Huntingdon, De Episcopis sui temporis.
[19] Perhaps this is too positively asserted. No doubt exists as to the political operation, but it has been questioned whether Theseus had a more real existence than the other heroes who gave their names to, or were named after, the several Athenian tribes. See Arnold’s Thucyd., Appendix II.
[20] History of Greece, p. 5.
[21] History of Greece, p. 6.
[22] The arrival of Theseus at Athens roused Medea’s jealousy, and she proposed to poison him. She did not arrive at Athens until some time after she had reached Greece with Jason and the Argonauts; while the journey of Theseus from Trœzen to Athens appears to have been his first exploit. Either, therefore, Theseus was not an Argonaut, or this charge against Medea is ungrounded.
[23] Eteocles and Polynices, the sons of Œdipus, agreed, after the expulsion of their father, to reign alternate years in Thebes. Eteocles, however, at the end of the first year, refused to surrender his power, upon which Polynices laid siege to the city, assisted by six other princes. The brothers met in battle, and fell by each other’s hands.
[24] Lockhart’s Spanish Ballads.