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The daughter of the king of Troezen, Pittheus, and the consort of the king of Athens, Aegeus, and mother of the hero, Theseus.
Aegeus left Aethra before Theseus was born and instructed her to place a sword and a pair of sandals under a boulder so that when Theseus was strong enough to lift the boulder and remove the sword and sandals he would be manly enough to join his father in Athens and claim his rightful inheritance.
Aegeus didn’t realize that Poseidon (lord of the Sea) had also been with Aethra and that Theseus might very well have been the son of one of the Olympians.
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