What Is The Minotaur?

One afternoon Theseus was in his room when a little note was slid under his door and it told him to go down to the courtyard the crack of dawn and so he did. It was princess Ariadne who was going to help him defeat the Minotaur, she gave him a magical string that would help find his way through the labryrinth, the giant maze made by Daedalus and a sword. The next morning they were going into the labryrinth. As soon as they were in, it was dark and wet with bones all around. Theseus told one of the Athenian children to hold one end of the string when he set off. Once Theseus was deep into the maze he heard a rumble and he knew that was Minotaur. He ran in to the Minotaur with sword at hand it gave out a big groan. Theseus cut through it a couple more times to make sure it was dead. With a sigh of relief he walked back. At the entrance Ariadne was waiting to open the door to let them out. When the Athenians got out and quickly got a ship to sail back, but Theseus forgot to fly white sails so once King Aegean of Athens through himself off a cliff because he thought his son had died. After his death they named the sea after him, the Aegean

King Minos had prayed to the god of the sea, Poseidon, for a magnificent gift and in return he received a pure white bull. But instead of sacrificing this beautiful creature back to Poseidon, Minos chose a different bull to die in its stead. Poseidon, who was angered by this, had Aphrodite, goddess of love, make Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, fall in love with the white bull. From this love came the Minotaur. This creature possessed the body of a man, the head of a bull, and a hunger for human flesh (Renault 1958). Minos trapped the Minotaur within a labyrinth where it survived on the flesh of those who entered the winding passageways of this

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.

Overall, I enjoyed the reading. I admire how the author put his readers into a different perspective on this Greek myth. To see how the minotaur lived in the labyrinth before Theseus came

After a long time of fighting the Minotaur was getting weak from fighting his face was all bloody and Hercules through another strong punch sending the MInotaur flying thro the air and landing in the rock away from the house and knocked him out cold

The next day the Minotaur came back and he still couldn’t find anyone. This infuriated the Minotaur. But he did find a HUGE footprint in this room something bigger than anyone had ever found before. There was a fire pit in in the center of this room and it was still smoldering. This told the minotaur that the figure would be coming

The Cretan Bull: This task was said to be insane.“Capture the Cretan Bull,” also means the same thing. Minos is the King of Crete and he is very powerful. He was famous for wrestling bulls. Hercules was ordered to wrestle bulls. He easily wrestled it, and then he drove it back to King Eurystheus. Nicely, the king let the bull go free. In addition, the bull roamed Greece which caused chaos.

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.

Cyclops (Polyphemus, specifically) is a gigantic one eyed monster, considered the sons of Titans, Uranus, Gaea, and the other Cyclopes were his brothers.Polyphemus was considered a skilled metalsmith craftsman fashioning useful items like certain tools, kitchenware, tableware, jewellery, and weapons out of various metals and he was very strong, but also stubborn. One weakness would be his one eye, so the Cyclopes could be easily blinded. One short myth on Polyphemus is that,Odysseus and his men entered a cave that Polyphemus lived in but he wasn’t there at the time.So Odysseus and his men helped themselves to the food and drink they found there. Then Polyphemus, returned to the cave.Finding Odysseus and his men in the cave

In order to comprehend Geoffrey Keyte’s theory concerning the lost continent of Atlantis, it is vital to comprehend the Atlanteans. According to Keyte, the Atlanteans were of extraterrestrial basis and came to Earth above fifty thousands years ago. Keyte believes the Atlanteans were above eight to twelve feet with blonde hair and blue eyes. These people were extremely fair-skinned and had life-spans of above eight hundred years. These seven to twelve foot humanoids were believed to be a myth not until a location with eight to twelve foot skeletons was excavate (Keyte). According to Keyte the Atlantean’s knowledge was far more elevated than modern technology. The Atlanteans utilized crystals such as quartz to store and transfer energy. Keyte

Several monsters such as the Minotaur, Medusa, and centaurs appear to be partially human. These monsters have human characteristics because the gods decided to create them that way. The Minotaur has the head of a bull with the body of a man. He was born as the offspring of Minos’ wife and a beautiful white bull sent by Poseidon (Hamilton 157). Poseidon forced Minos’ wife to love the bull. Their offspring was the

the animals, and the 50/50 body composition of the animals-Minotaur is half human and half

There are many examples of heroes throughout history and in story books that convey great messages, but what makes your leaders heroes? There are many attributes that make a hero but there are three main areas. To be a hero, one must be willing to make many sacrifices, be humble and not expect anything from the actions, and make positive changes.