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'''Troezen''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Τροιζήν), modern: '''[[Troizina]]''', [[Troezena]] or '''[[Trizina]]''' is a city in the [[Peloponnese]], on the NE part of [[Argolis]] located southwest of [[Athens]] and a few miles south of [[Methana]]. Despite its position, administratively it belongs to the [[prefecture]] of [[Attica]].

According to [[Greek mythology]], [[Aegeus]], king of Athens visited Troezen on his way back from a visit to the Delphic oracle. [[Pittheus]], king of Troezen made Aegeus drunk, and partnered him with his daughter [[Aethra]]. Legend has it that Aethra slept with [[Poseidon]] the same night, and she fell pregnant with the great Greek hero [[Theseus]]. Before returning to Athens, Aegeus left his sandals and sword under a large boulder, and requested that when the child was able to prove himself by moving the boulder he must return the items to his father in Athens.

When Theseus came of age his mother took him to a forest clearing outside the city walls and challenged him to lift the boulder. Beneath it he found his father's arms, and began his heroic adventures by taking the dangerous overland route to Athens.

Troezen is also the setting of the [[Euripides]] tragedy ''[[Hippolytus]]'', which recounts the story of the eponymous son of Theseus who becomes the subject of the love of his stepmother, [[Phaedra]]. When Hippolytus discovers his stemother's feelings for him he is appalled. Phaedra subsequently kills herself in shame, but not before writing a suicide note accusing Hippolytus of raping her. When Theseus finds the note, he banishes Hippolytus, invoking a curse from [[Poseidon]] upon him. While fleeing the city, Hippolytus is killed when his chariot is attacked by a bull rising from the sea. Other plays on the same subject have been written by Seneca and Jean Racine.

A cult built up in in the ancient city around the legend of Hippolytus. Troezen girls traditionally dedicated a lock of their hair to him before marriage.

Before the [[Battle of Salamis]], Athenian women and children were sent to Troezen for safety on the instructions of the Athenian statesman [[Themistocles]]. In [[1959]] a stele was found in a coffee house in Troezen, depicting the ''[[Decree of Themistocles]]'', the order to evacuate Athens. The stele has since been dated to some 200 years after the Battle of Salamis, indicating that it is probably a commemorative copy of the original order.

The temple of Isis was built by the [[Halicarnassus|Halicarnassians]] in Troezen, because this was their mother-city, but the image of Isis was dedicated by the people of Troezen. The ancient city also possessed a spring, which formed at where the winged horse [[Pegasus]] once came to ground.

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−	'''Troezen''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]]: Τροιζήν), modern: '''[[Troizina]]''', [[Troezena]] or '''[[Trizina]]''' is a city in the [[Peloponnese]], on the NE part of [[Argolis]] located southwest of [[Athens]] and a few miles south of [[Methana]]. Despite its position, administratively it belongs to the [[prefecture]] of [[Attica]].	+	'''Troezen''' ([[Greek language\|Greek]]: Τροιζήν), modern: '''Troizina''', '''Troezena''' or '''Trizina''' is a city in the [[Peloponnese]], on the NE part of [[Argolis]] located southwest of [[Athens]] and a few miles south of [[Methana]]. Despite its position, administratively it belongs to the [[prefecture]] of [[Attica]].

	According to [[Greek mythology]], [[Aegeus]], king of Athens visited Troezen on his way back from a visit to the Delphic oracle. [[Pittheus]], king of Troezen made Aegeus drunk, and partnered him with his daughter [[Aethra]]. Legend has it that Aethra slept with [[Poseidon]] the same night, and she fell pregnant with the great Greek hero [[Theseus]]. Before returning to Athens, Aegeus left his sandals and sword under a large boulder, and requested that when the child was able to prove himself by moving the boulder he must return the items to his father in Athens.		According to [[Greek mythology]], [[Aegeus]], king of Athens visited Troezen on his way back from a visit to the Delphic oracle. [[Pittheus]], king of Troezen made Aegeus drunk, and partnered him with his daughter [[Aethra]]. Legend has it that Aethra slept with [[Poseidon]] the same night, and she fell pregnant with the great Greek hero [[Theseus]]. Before returning to Athens, Aegeus left his sandals and sword under a large boulder, and requested that when the child was able to prove himself by moving the boulder he must return the items to his father in Athens.

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