Theseus was brought up in a town called Troezen. When he was of age he fulfilled his fathers wishes and remove the stone from where his fathers sword and sandals were hidden. We spoke about the sword but what do the sandals represent? A shoe is a sandal, one walks in the shoes of another, so Theseus would be walking in the shoes of his father the king. Upon retrieving said items Theseus was to go to Athens. The instructions was to go to Athens with his fathers sword or military authority and his sandals, as him in his shoes, as the king or being the king. The sandal represents the things one where that interact with the ground one walks on, in his case the ground his father governed. It seems as his father with his authority over the land by way of his sandals and the authority to his military might he had to go to Athens to complete the destiny being the wielder of both must do to fulfill this all.
What does Periphetes represent as he is the first person Theseus encounters on the way to Athens?
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