<Li> Another of these enemies was Cercyon, king at the holy site of Eleusis, who challenged passers - by to a wrestling match and, when he had beaten them, killed them . Theseus beat Cercyon at wrestling and then killed him instead . </Li> <Li> The last bandit was Procrustes the Stretcher, who had two beds, one of which he offered to passers - by in the plain of Eleusis . He then made them fit into it, either by stretching them or by cutting off their feet . Since he had two beds of different lengths, no one would fit . Theseus turned the tables on Procrustes, cutting off his legs and decapitating him with his own axe . </Li> <P> When Theseus arrived at Athens, he did not reveal his true identity immediately . Aegeus gave him hospitality but was suspicious of the young, powerful stranger's intentions . Aegeus's wife Medea recognised Theseus immediately as Aegeus' son and worried that Theseus would be chosen as heir to Aegeus' kingdom instead of her son Medus . She tried to arrange to have Theseus killed by asking him to capture the Marathonian Bull, an emblem of Cretan power . </P> <P> On the way to Marathon, Theseus took shelter from a storm in the hut of an ancient woman named Hecale . She swore to make a sacrifice to Zeus if Theseus were successful in capturing the bull . Theseus did capture the bull, but when he returned to Hecale's hut, she was dead . In her honour Theseus gave her name to one of the demes of Attica, making its inhabitants in a sense her adopted children . </P>

Who was the supposed divine father of theseus