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34They say that Aethra, the mother of Theseus, who was taken captive at Aphidnae, was carried away to Lacedaemon, and from thence to Troy with Helen, and that Homer[47]bears witness to this when he mentions as followers of Helen:—
But some reject this verse of Homer’s, as well as the legend of Munychus, who was born in secret to Laodice from Demophoön, and whom Aethra helped to rear in Ilium.“Aethra of Pittheus born, and Clymene large-eyed and lovely.”
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Notes
[47] Iliad, iii. 144.