dionysus was the supposed divine father of theseus.
who was the supposed divine father of theseus?
dionysus
an athenian storyteller and his dog take shelter in the labyrinth of knossos. there he recounts the story of the minotaur confined to the maze by king minos ten centuries earlier. king aegeus had left his sword under a huge rock and told aithra that when their son theseus would grow up, he should move the rock to learn who his father was. theseus grew up and became a brave young man. he managed to move the rock and took up his father's sword. his mother then told him the truth about his father's identity. theseus decided to go to athens, either by sea, which was the safe way or by land, following a dangerous path with thieves and bandits all the way. young, brave and ambitious, theseus decided to go to athens by land. he arrived in athens where king aegeus welcomed while medea plotted to kill theseus. after king aegeus recognized the sword that theseus is carrying, he knocked the poisoned drink out of his hand. before the guards can arrest medea, she teleports away while cursing aegeus. reclaiming his rightful place as the son of king aegeus, theseus insisted on traveling to crete to kill the dreaded minotaur. he promised to his father aegeus that he would put up a white sail on his journey back home if he was successful. ariadne, minos' daughter, fell in love with theseus and helped him get out of the labyrinth by giving him a ball of thread allowing him to retrace his path. theseus killed the minotaur. theseus took ariadne with him but on the return trip abandoned her on the island of naxos. he also failed to fly white sails on his return journey, thus causing his father to throw himself into the aegean sea which was since named after him.
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the literal translation of the arabic phrase ""dhul-qarnayn,"" as written in the quran, is "the two-horned man." alexander the great was portrayed in his own time with horns following the iconography of the egyptian god ammon-ra, his supposed divine father.. rams were a symbol of virility due to their rutting behaviour; the horns of ammon may have also represented the east and west of the earth, and one of the titles of ammon was "the two-horned." alexander was depicted with the horns of ammon as a result of his conquest of ancient egypt in 332 bc, where the priesthood received him as the son of the god ammon, who was identified by the ancient greeks with zeus, the king of the gods. the combined deity zeus-ammon was a distinct figure in ancient greek mythology. according to five historians of antiquity (arrian, curtius, diodorus, justin, and plutarch), alexander visited the oracle of ammon at siwa in the libyan desert and rumours spread that the oracle had revealed alexander's father to be the deity ammon, rather than philip. alexander styled himself as the son of zeus-ammon and even demanded to be worshiped as a god:
alexander the great in the quran