Theseus
Theseus, Il. 1.265, etc.: pl. Θησέες Pl. Tht. 169b; Θησεῖς Alciphr. 2.4.
The corpus record
Θησεύς
theseus · ὁ
Theseus
Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Suppliants 17 · 24.16/10k
- Oedipus at Colonus 14 · 13.52/10k
- Heracles 6 · 7.67/10k
- Eumenides 2 · 3.82/10k
- Shield of Heracles 1 · 3.09/10k
- Trojan Women 2 · 2.83/10k
- Athenian Constitution 4 · 2.46/10k
- On Hunting 2 · 2.2/10k
- Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
- Symposium 1 · 1.05/10k
Densest 12 of 23 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- Θησέως · Thēseōs Aeschylus, Eumenides 397–402
- Θησέως · Thēseōs Aeschylus, Eumenides 685–689
- Θησέως · Thēseōs Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..41 (DIORISIS sentence 475)
- Θησέως · Thēseōs Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..fragments.3 (DIORISIS sentence 8)
- Θησεὺς · Thēseus Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..fragments.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7)
- Θησεὺς · Thēseus Aristotle, Athenian Constitution Ath. Pol..fragments.6 (DIORISIS sentence 15)
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Where it came from
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Θησεύς (scan p. 450; entry #3157).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Θησεύς (scan p. 705; entry #2445).