. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. passage, walking slowly on their high-heeledshoes. Through the same passage the youths and maidens of Athenswere afterward brought. They came into a great hall. Thewalls were red and on them were paintings in black — picturesof great bulls with girls and slender youths struggling withthem. It was a place for games and shows, and Theseus stoodwith the youths and maidens of Athens and with the peopleof the palace and watched what was happening. They saw women charming snakes; then they saw a boxingmatch, and afterward they all looked
. The golden fleece and the heroes who lived before Achilles. passage, walking slowly on their high-heeledshoes. Through the same passage the youths and maidens of Athenswere afterward brought. They came into a great hall. Thewalls were red and on them were paintings in black — picturesof great bulls with girls and slender youths struggling withthem. It was a place for games and shows, and Theseus stoodwith the youths and maidens of Athens and with the peopleof the palace and watched what was happening. They saw women charming snakes; then they saw a boxingmatch, and afterward they all looked on a bout of looked past the wrestlers and he saw, at the other endof the hall, the daughter of King Minos and her two attendantmaidens. One broad-shouldered and bearded man overthrew all thewrestlers who came to grips with him. He stood there boast-fully, and Theseus was made angry by the mans , when no other wrestler would come against him, heturned to leave the arena. But Theseus stood in his way and pushed him back. The. THE HEROES OF THE QUEST 209 boastful man laid hands upon him and pulled him into thearena. He strove to throw Theseus as he had thrown the others;but he soon found that the youth from Greece was a wrestler,too, and that he would have to strive hard to overthrow him. More eagerly than they had watched anything else the peopleof the palace and the youths and maidens of Athens watchedthe bout between Theseus and the lordly wrestler. Those fromAthens who looked upon him now thought that they had neverseen Theseus look so tall and so conquering before; beside theslender, dark-haired people of Crete he looked like a statue ofone of the gods. Very adroit was the Cretan wrestler, and Theseus had to useall his strength to keep upon his feet; but soon he masteredthe tricks that the wrestler was using against him. Then theCretan left aside his tricks and began to use all his strengthto throw Theseus. Steadily Theseus stood and the Cre
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