Who were Theseus's kids?

Answer 1

The first male child of Theseus was Melanippus, whose mother Perigone was daughter of Sinis - whom Theseus had killed along his way to Athens because he made travelers bend pine trees to the ground and than let the tree go and sending them to their deaths; or bending two pine trees and letting go thus tearing the traveler apart. Perigune later married Deioneus of Oechalia.

Theseus perhaps had sons with Ariadne, daughter of Minos of Crete who helped him in the labyrinth; his sons by her may have been Staphylus and Oenopion - who are also called the sons of Dionysus because Theseus abandoned Ariadne on Dia, where Dionysus found her and fell in love making her his immortal wife. Such is why it is hard to say if Staphylus and Oenopion are the sons of Dionysus or of Theseus.

Theseus later married Ariadne's sister, Phaedra, another daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. By her he had Acamas and perhaps Demophon, who is also said to be a son of the Amazon Hippolyte who was his captive, and perhaps his wife as well. Hippolyte or her sister Antiope had Hippolytus- who Phaedra attempted to seduce and when she failed accused Hippolytus of raping her.

Theseus believed her, and in anger prayed to Poseidon that Hippolytus might perish; and so, when the young man was driving his chariot beside the sea, the god, listening to Theseus' curse, sent up a bull from the surf that frightened the horses and dashed the chariot to pieces, and Hippolytus, entangled in the reins, was dragged to death.

Phaedra hanged herself when the scandal was made public.

Iphigeneia, who is otherwise a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra is also said to be a daughter of Helen and Theseus from when he and Pirithous had gone to Sparta to make daughters of Zeus their wives; so it is that Theseus went to the Underworld with Pirithous with the intent of stealing away Persephone and sat upon the Chair of Forgetfulness, being held there either because the rock grew to their flesh, or else by coils of serpents.

Heracles later raised them both up out of the Underworld, or only Theseus.