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3 Plays: Electra / Heracles / Suppliant Women by Euripides
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinchmother of Theseus
The Greek Epic Cycle and its Ancient Reception: A Companion by Marco FantuzziTheseus' mother
Helen of Sparta by Amalia Carosella
Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean by Irad Malkinas Aithra
Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Theseus and the Minotaur by Yvan Pommaux
Uppity Women of Ancient Times by Vicki LeonAithra - Wife of Phalanthos

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