Question

Athens agrees to pay the tribute.
Young people participate in a lottery.
Theseus uses the silken thread.
Theseus fights the Minotaur.
Aegeus drowns in the Aegean Sea.
Theseus becomes king.

Answer 1

When Athens agreed to pay a tribute to Crete, each year a lottery selected young men and women to be sent. Theseus volunteered and went to Crete; helped by a silken thread (given to him by Ariadne), he entered the Labyrinth, fought and killed the Minotaur, and used the thread to find his way out. On his return he failed to change the ship’s sails; believing his son dead, Aegeus drowned himself in the sea that now bears his name, and Theseus became king of Athens.

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