![]() “Originally the company was an abbreviation of family members, SER technologies is what it was. “Uhm I guess I started the company because I got layed off a bunch of times, I was working in the software industry, it was Y2K right? Year 2000, I mean who’s gonna hire a key white person, a process improvement person at that time frame? So I got lucky, got a couple part time jobs and thought maybe I’ll make a go of this thing… and uh you know the rest is Theseus’ history!” (Moreau) Like most great things the company started in a time of hardship, for Mr. Image Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum Moreau to seek Mythical inspiration for his company and its values. All of this was considered when is came time for Mr. Next came the adventure of the Cretan Minotaur, half man and half bull, shut up in the legendary Cretan Labyrinth.”(The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, 2). In his lifetime Theseus would go on to do many great things from clearing a roadway of murderers to one of his most famous myths, described in the Encyclopedia of Britannica, “Theseus successfully attacked the fire breathing bull of Marathon. Theseus’s most significant achievements was the” and forgive my pronunciation, quote, “Synoikimos, the unification of the 12 demes, or the local settlements of Attica, into the political and economic entity that became Athens,” (Green, 1). To help us understand how myth is still visible in today’s society we asked Norm Moreau, the founder of Theseus Professional Services to speak about how he drew inspiration from one of Ancient Greece’s epic heroes, Theseus.īefore we continue I feel like a brief summary of Theseus is in order, for this we looked to “ Theseus Hero of Athens ” an article by Andrew Green at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Green states, and I quote “The earliest references to the hero come from the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Homeric epics of early eighth century B.C. Today, however, we don’t typically rely on myths for explanation, but rather, inspiration. ![]() In ancient times Myths were created to explain the unexplainable Why the sun sets, why lightning strikes, and perhaps best of all, who slayed the minotaur.
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