Transcription: The compassion Theseus showed to his enemies, as well as his friends in later life, may well have been encouraged by his grief at his father's death. He had grown up knowing that his destiny would begin when he moved the rock concealing the signs his father had left him. To then lose his father and to lose him because of his own carelessness affected Theseus deeply. Truly, he said, the Rhapsode was right about this. In every love there is a loss. Cruelty such as Minos's is a coward's way of avoiding this pain. I will not make others suffer merely to make myself feel better." The Rhapsode had t ...
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