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Theseus

Θησεύς

(Θησεύς), a Greek historian of unknown date, wrote the lives of illustrious men (βίοι ἐνδόξων) in five books, and a work on Corinth (Κοριιθιακά) in three books, in which he gave an account of the establishment of the Isthmian games. (Suidas, s.v. Etymol. M. s. v. ̓́αρνη; Stobaeus, Floril. 7.67, 70; Schol. ad Lycophr. 644.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.