It is appropriate that Theseus should be linked in this way with the Athens of logic, philosophy, and open inquiry for he was the hero who more than any other embodied the qualities Athenians most prized. Like Heracles, Perseus, and Bellerophon before him, he helped cleanse the world of dangerous monsters, but the way he did so employed wit, intelligence, and fresh ways of thinking. He was fallible and flawed, as all the heroes were, but he stood for something great in us all. Long may he stand in Syntagma Square and long may he stand high in our regard.
