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Bookmark or Share- Theseus - MythopediaTheseus Slays the Minotaur. Shortly after meeting his father Aegeus in Athens, Theseus voyaged to the island of Crete as one of the fourteen “tributes” sent annually as a sacrifice to the Minotaur—a half-man, half-bull hybrid imprisoned in the Labyrinth. Theseus vowed to kill the Minotaur and end the bloody custom once and for all.
- Perseus – MythopediaPerseus, son of Zeus, was a Greek hero from Argos. He is best remembered for killing Medusa, rescuing Andromeda, and founding the city of Mycenae.
- Minotaur - MythopediaThe Minotaur was a fearful hybrid creature; according to the writer Apollodorus, it “had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human.” In many artistic depictions, the Minotaur also had a bull’s tail and an unusually hairy body. Ancient sources did not always specify which half of the Minotaur was bull and which half was man.
- Ariadne - MythopediaThe Minotaur by George Frederic Watts (1885). Tate Public Domain. Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of thread, which some sources claimed had been given to her by Daedalus, the architect of the Labyrinth. She instructed Theseus to unravel the thread as he passed through the maze-like Labyrinth until he found the Minotaur.
- Daedalus - MythopediaDaedalus was a craftsman from Athens who designed the famous Labyrinth—the prison of the Minotaur—and other marvelous creations for the Cretan king Minos. He and his son Icarus were imprisoned by Minos, but they managed to escape on wings that Daedalus had built.
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