How did ancient Greek hero Theseus unite all of Attica under the rule of Athens, and what was it like before he did?

That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer named Nikaloas Balanos ... the one seen here to hold blocks together. The ancient Greeks had done the same, but they had coated ...

Renaissance thinkers saw their own era as a reenactment of the great dramas of Greek history. What drove this comparison?