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Ship of Theseus

Objects · Myth & story

A named Athenian festival-hull of the Theseus story, later a puzzle of replaced planks. Not Argo, not Hringhorni, not Prydwen, and not a generic ship.

Hellenic religion

  • Ship of Theseus is historically related to Theseus.

    Pausanias seats the Athenian festival-hull of the Theseus story — the ship kept with replaced planks — among Attic memorial speech tied to Theseus. Historical relation of the named ship to Theseus in that periegesis, not Argo and not a generic hull dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    historically related to · sourced · documented

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