Partnership gives Support and Strength

The myths of Theseus, Daedalus and Castor and Pollux have some similarities and differences between them. They all share the fact that they share their adventures with a partner and receive their support to accomplish things. For example Theseus was able to kill king Mino’s Minotaur thanks to her daughter, Ariadne who helped him find a way to get back out of the maze after he had killed the Minotaur. But after he abandoned Ariadne, he finds a new partner that he doesn’t leave behind by his will at any moment. He is Pirithous and they stand together even when they go looking for Erebus, the wife Pirithous aspired, and they end up trapped in the underworld. Later on Theseus is once more liberated after Hercules rescues him and leaves Pirithous behind. He later on has some more partners but doesn’t remain as loyal to any of them as he did to Pirithous. We could say that Daedalus as well had a partner, his son, Icarus. They go out together flying and trying to escape Crete and during the way, Icarus dies. Icarus’s death comes from the fact that he disobeyed his fathers councils and goes to high up in the sky and the wax of the wings created by his father melt, and he falls to the ocean and dies. And in the story of Castor and Pollux, they are not just brothers but companions as well. They have a bond that maintains them always together and when Castor is killed in war, Pollux asks Jupiter to take his life also. In all of the three stories one or both of the companions die and when they do the other suffers for the loss of his friendship and support.