Pausanias Description of Greece 1.3.3

[3] Another portico [ stoā] is built behind [the one I just talked about], and this one has paintings [ graphai] of the gods called the Twelve. On the wall opposite are painted [ graphesthai] Theseus, [personified] Democracy [ Dēmokratiā], and [personified] Dēmos. The painting [ graphē] represents Theseus as the one who established for the Athenians a system of governance [ politeuesthai] on-an-equal-footing [ ex isou]. In other ways as well did the story [ phēmē] spread among the people—the story that Theseus bestowed upon them the management of their own affairs [ pragmata], and that from his time onward the people continued to have-a-democratic government [ dēmokrateîsthai], until the emergence of Peisistratos, who became-tyrant [ turanneîn]. 15

Granted, the majority of people tell and are told many other things as well—things that are not true [ alēthē], since people are ignorant of scientific-research [ historiā] and consider trustworthy whatever they have heard, from childhood onward, in choruses [ khoroi] and tragedies [ tragōidiai]. There are stories like that also concerning Theseus, who himself became king, and afterwards, when Menestheus died, the descendants of Theseus remained rulers even to the fourth generation [ geneā]. But if I cared about tracing-lineages [ geneālogeîn] I should have included in the counting, besides these, the kings starting from Melanthos extending all the way to Kleidikos the son of Aisimides.