Knossos : The Origin Of The Minotaus

In the story between Theseus and the Minotaur, King Minos requested that seven boys and seven girls come to Crete from Athens every nine years so his son the Minotaur could feast (Gods, Heroes and Monsters, 4.11.). The Minotaur lived in the center of a very tricky maze called the labyrinth. Theseus didn’t like the idea of sending young children to Crete so he volunteered to go himself and defeat the Minotaur. Theseus says to his father “When it is time to send the next tribute, I will go as one of them and I vow that it is the last time the Minotaur will be fed with the flesh of any of our people (Myths and Legends, 2006)”. The bravery Theseus had to save his people is part of the reason why he is considered a mythological hero. He volunteered himself to defeat the creature not knowing if he was going to make it himself. He was confident and wise but the maze was confusing and anyone who goes in doesn’t necessary come back out. King Minos wasn’t worried because if he were to defeat his son, he wouldn’t find his way back out.

Minos promised to sacrifice the bull as an offering, but he coveted it for himself. He assumed that Poseidon would not mind, so he kept it and sacrificed the best specimen from his herd instead. When Poseidon learned about the deceit, he made Minos' wife fall madly in love with the white bull. The offspring of their lovemaking was a monster called the Minotaur.

The Cretan Bull. The Cretan bull was a magnificent but terrible brute owned by King Minos of Crete. When it got out of control, Hercules was ordered to capture it. Once again, having used his great strength and skill to advantage, Hercules entered the halls of Eurystheus with a huge beast draped over his broad shoulders. The Horses of Diomedes. Diomedes, the cruel king of Thrace, fed his horses on human flesh. They were swift, beautiful beasts, but violent and difficult to restrain. Hercules was ordered to snatch them from their owner.

The Minotaur, meaning Minos bull, was “a monster of dire appearance, having the body of a powerful man and the head of a bull” (Seltman 98). Against his newfound father’s request, Theseus leaves Athens in hopes of returning victorious against the bull-headed beast. In a heroic fashion, Theseus leaps over the next step in Campbell’s hero journey and never refuses his call to adventure. The next step to any hero’s journey is an encounter with a super natural aid, but Theseus’ story takes a moral mentor to gather resources needed for the rest of his journey (Robertson 269). Theseus encounters his unlikely mentor upon arriving to Crete; Minos daughter, Ariadne, instructs Theseus to take a ball of linen with him into the labyrinth in order to trace back his steps after defeating the Minotaur (Martin 129). Crossing the threshold, Theseus ties one end of his ball of linen to the front door and journeys into the unconquerable maze and towards the beast (129). Theseus passes through his first trial of navigating the labyrinth inwards with ease straight into danger. Walking

The Minotaur, half man half bull, lived in Crete. Trapped in a labyrinth, constructed by the great Daedalus, the king of Crete, King Minos, demanded a tribute of seven boys and seven girls from Athens to satisfy the Minotaur’s savage hunger. But one year, Minos was deceived, for a new hero arose, Theseus, son of Aegeus, Prince of Athens. He won over the heart of Minos’s daughter, Ariadne, and used her ball of string to venture into the labyrinth to slay the Minotaur. After a hard-fought grapple within the lair of the minotaur, the beast fell to the sword of Aegeus, which Theseus had smuggled into the maze. Using the string, he found his way back out. The Labyrinth went underground, void of life, never to be seen again.

The Odyssey contains many epic examples. The Epic Plot includes dangerous creatures. For example, Odysseus and his crew bravely fought the six-headed beast, Scylla. Odysseus had to make a difficult decision that cost the lives of six of his men. Had he not done this, "they would have dropped their oars again, in panic, to roll for cover under the decking"(Homer 1135). Odysseus thought it was better to lose six men than to

One day Hercules was trying to make a plan to get the right medicine for his mom. Hercules knew that in the Minotaurs kingdom was a secret room that had the right medicine,but the minotaur never gave the medicine out to anyone.

The next day the Minotaur shows up with Poseidon and Bigfoot with Artemis. They started off and the Minotaur takes the first move and takes bigfoot by surprise and knocks him back. He gets back up and goes after the minotaur and couldn’t catch him. The Minotaur asks Poseidon to help at this point Poseidon brings in some water to try to drown bigfoot but Artemis steps in and puts up a wall of animals in front of bigfoot. The minotaur become enraged with this and has Poseidon summon a spear so that he can finish

The story that we covered was called the Minotaur, which comes from Greek mythology. The Minotaur is a person who has a bull’s head but a person’s body. In this story, a person named Minos was supposed to give his best bull to the Greek god Poseiden. One year Minos had fell in love with his best bull and didn’t want to give it up to Poseiden, so Minos gave Poseiden another bull. Poseiden knew that Minos had not given him his best bull so Poseiden decided to retaliate.

“One story says that Theseus deserted Ariadne. She was asleep and he sailed away without her, but Dionysus found her and comforted

What kind of picture do the Greeks paint of King Minos? (3) The minotaur, half man and half bull, was born at the union of a white bull and King Minos’s wife. When King Minos saw the hideous offspring her had it locked up. Every 9 years the King would feed 7 people

Not wanting him to perish in the labyrinth, Ariadne contacted Daedalus for a way out of the giant maze. The solution was simple. All Theseus needed to do was attach a thread to the entrance of the labyrinth and unwind it as he ventured farther inside. Ariadne offered one condition for the solution: Theseus must take her back with him to Athens and make her his wife. He agreed and bravely went forth to challenge the Minotaur using only his mind and raw strength.

Because Minos was ungrateful to the gods, Poseidon, the god of the sea, punished the king by making his wife fall in love with a bull. “At the request of the queen, Daedalus built a lifelike model of a cow in which she could conceal herself and spend time with her beloved bull” ("Daedalus." UXL Encyclopedia of World Mythology.). As a result, the queen gave birth to the Minotaur, a monstrous creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. King Minos ordered Daedalus to design a prison for the Minotaur, so Daedalus built one of the most famous structures of Greek mythology, the Labyrinth. “The labyrinth was so skillfully designed that no one could escape from the maze” ("Daedalus." Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014)). King Minos forced the city of Athens to annually send 7 boys and 7 girls as tributes to Crete, so they could be given to the Minotaur as food. The king’s daughter, Ariadne, fell in love with one of these doomed tributes, named Theseus. In order to help them, Daedalus gave Theseus a ball of string so that he could tie the string to the entrance of the maze, kill the Minotaur, and follow the string back out. King Minos knew that Daedalus was behind the scheme, so he imprisoned both Daedalus and his son, Icarus, in the Labyrinth. Daedalus was too clever for the king, however, and he fashioned two pairs of wings out of feathers and wax for him and his son to fly out of

In the myth “daedalus” as retold by anne terry white. Daedalus is the greatest sculptor in hole world. He lived in a town in greece called athens. He has a nephew named talus he also has a clever mind he made a compass out of a fish bone. Daedalus became jealous and frightened they talis would soon become better than him so when they were at a height daedalus pushed talis to his death. then Daedalus realized what he had done he became horrified he then wondered around greece miserably. Eventually daedalus moved over sea to a place called crete there was a king that had ruled crete his name is minos. As daedalus arrived to crete king minos gave him a gob to build a labyrinth so hard to get out of for a beast called a monitor. After daedalus

Than those accounts by Theocritus that had people witnessing Heracles, and how Heracles lifted the lion over his back instead of choking him on the ground. To where and who was involved with the lion like Diodorus Siculus states. Then in Greek/Roman times when the Pseudo Apollodorus writes about the same myth poking fun at the Mycenaeans and king Eurystheus. By this time though, the story seems to take hold into what it becomes today with the numerous productions of movies, books, and stories of