Theseus

Plutarch

Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives, Vol. I. Perrin, Bernadotte, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1914.

But after publishing my account of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might not unreasonably go back still farther to Romulus, now that my history had brought me near his times. And as I asked myself,

  1. With such a warrior (as Aeschylus says) who will dare to fight?
[*](The actual text in Aeschylus:τοιῷδε φωτὶ πέμπε—τίς ξυστήσεται; )
  1. Whom shall I set against him? Who is competent?
[*](The actual text in Aechylus:τίνʼ ἀντιτάξεις τῷδε; τίς Προίτου πυλῶν | κλῄθρων λυθέντων προστατεῖν φερέγγυος· ) it seemed to me that I must make the founder of lovely and famous Athens the counterpart and parallel to the father of invincible and glorious Rome.