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What is the supposed chronology of these Greek myths?

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Jason & the Argonauts (fleece, etc)

Siege of Troy/Trojan wars

Prometheus/fire

Theseus & Minotaur

Antigone

Oedipus

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  1. Uh, i think u just answered ur own question there pal.


  2. Jason & the Argonauts (fleece, etc):around 1240s BC

    Siege of Troy/Trojan wars: around 1180s BC

    Prometheus/fire: Long before 1240s BC

    Theseus & Minotaur: around 1230s BC

    Antigone: around 1220s BC

    Oedipus: around 1220s BC

    The fire in Troy according to archaeologists happened in 1180s BC.  The Trojan war lasted 10 years (start: 1190s BC). The fathers of the Argean partcipants in the Trojan War had attacked Thebes and were the Seven against Thebes. So it must have happened 30 years before the start of the war (1220s BC). Then Antigone lost her brothers who killed each other and Oedipus blinded himself and went to Athens where Theseus reigned. Theseus when he was in his 50s had kidnapped the 12-year-old Helen of Sparta. Helen must have been kidnapped by Paris in her mid-20s in 1190s BC. So Theseus was 20 years old in the 1230s BC, when he arrived in Athens to claim the Throne and went to Crete to kill the Minotaur. When he arrived in Athens, his father, king Aegeus, was marrried to Medea, who had left Jason after killing their little kids, because he cheated on her. So in 1240s BC must have been the myth of Jason & the Argonauts, when Medea left her father and followed Jason. One of the argonauts was Hercules, who set Prometheus free, who had stolen the fire from the gods long before when the humans hadn't developped any king of civilization and was bounded in Caucasus for all these years.

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