He offered the Athenians peace, however, under the condition that Athens would send seven young men and seven young women every nine years to Crete to be fed to the Minotaur, a vicious monster.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

" Aegeus must avert the plague caused by his crime by sending " young men at the same time as the best of unwed girls as a feast " to the Minotaur.

Every year ( or every nine years in some sources ) he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus ' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.

In the myth, we are told that Athens sent seven young men and seven young women to Crete as human sacrifices to the Minotaur.

The Athenians asked for terms, and were required to sacrifice seven young men and seven maidens every seven or nine years to the Minotaur.

With all respect to a fine young man, Mr. Roy is not able to provide these necessaries ''.

The cyclist, a sufficiently commonplace young fellow, is not named but identified simply as `` Life '' -- that and a license number, which Piepsam uses in addressing him.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

`` This is no place for a young girl '', he said.

The pessimism of the young is defiant, anxious to confess or even exaggerate its ostensible gloom, and so exuberant as to reveal the fact that it regards its ability to face up to the awful truth as more than enough to compensate for the awfulness of that truth.

If it proclaims that the best is yet to be, it always arouses, at least in the young, either a suspicious question or perhaps the exclamation of the Negro youth who saw on a tombstone the inscription, `` I am not dead but sleeping ''.

But Krim's complaint is important because not only in New York, but in other cities and in universities throughout this country, young and not, so young men at

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

She has studied and observed and she is convinced that her young man is going to be endlessly enchanting.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

The welfare of citizens, old and young, is the responsibility of the community, not only of that part of it that rides the Aj.

One of the greatest obstacles to the achievement of this goal is the lack of trained men and women with the skill to teach the young and assist in the operation of development projects -- men and women with the capacity to cope with the demands of swiftly evolving economics, and with the dedication to put that capacity to work in the villages, the mountains, the towns and the factories of dozens of struggling nations.

To be fit, one has to start early with young children, and today the only person who really reaches such children is the teacher of dance.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

By the middle of the summer, many of the larvae apparently receive such a good diet that it is `` optimal '', and it is then that young queens begin to appear.

Other herpetologists have ascertained that in the northern United States the prairie rattlesnake may not give first birth until it is four or even five years old, and that the young may be born every other year, rather than annually.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

In I knew you when you were a child, and you were pretty then dominant stress on then implies that the young woman spoken to is still pretty.

It is obviously a young man's poem, written out of books and not out of experience ; ;

When served in a psychological atmosphere that allows young bodies to assimilate the greatest good from what they eat because they are free from tension, a foundation is laid for a high level of health that releases the children from physical handicaps to participate with enjoyment in the work assignments, the athletic programs and the most important phase, the educational opportunities.

The wife is likely to be young, sophisticated, smart as a whip -- often a girl who has sacrificed a promising career for marriage.

Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).

She was the Hellenic goddess of the hunt, wild animals, wilderness, childbirth, virginity and protector of young girls, bringing and relieving disease in women ; she often was depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows.

In this Halloween greeting card from 1904, divination is depicted: the young woman looking into a mirror in a darkened room hopes to catch a glimpse of the face of her future husband.

During Classical and Hellenistic Greece he is usually depicted young and nude, with athleticism, as befits the god of speech and of the gymnastics, or a robe, a formula is set predominantly through the centuries.

Many of Tenniel's political cartoons expressed strong hostility to Irish Nationalism, with Fenians and Land leagues depicted as monstrous, ape-like brutes, while " Hibernia "— the personification of Ireland — was depicted as a beautiful, helpless young girl threatened by these " monsters " and turning for protection to " her elder sister ", the powerful armoured Britannia.

( 1898 ), in which he is depicted as a struggling young artist who fakes his death to score fame and fortune.

Different from goddesses, nymphs are generally regarded as divine spirits who animate nature, and are usually depicted as beautiful, young nubile maidens who love to dance and sing ; their amorous freedom sets them apart from the restricted and chaste wives and daughters of the Greek polis.

The events are depicted as seen by Mikael Karvajalka, a young Finnish man who is in Stockholm at the time.

Theological Virtues are often depicted in art as young women.

* In the TV series Rome, Brutus, portrayed by Tobias Menzies, is depicted as a young man torn between what he believes is right, and his loyalty and love of a man who has been like a father to him.

Usually, however, she is depicted with her young child, Horus ( the pharaoh ), with a crown, and a vulture.

However, Thomas was at the time a young man who spent only a few days ( or weeks at most ) with Lawrence in the field – unlike Bentley, who is depicted as a cynical middle-aged Chicago newspaperman who is present during the whole of Lawrence's later campaigns.

The Siren, by John William Waterhouse ( circa 1900 ), depicted as a fish-chimera. According to Ovid ( Metamorphoses V, 551 ), the Sirens were the companions of young Persephone and were given wings by Demeter to search for Persephone when she was abducted.

Although in modern culture they are often depicted as young, sometimes winged, humanoids of small stature, they originally were depicted quite differently: tall, radiant, angelic beings or short, wizened trolls being two of the commonly mentioned forms.

The distinctive appearance of Triceratops has led to them being frequently depicted in films, computer games and documentaries, including the Don Bluth film The Land Before Time, which featured a young Triceratops as a main character, the 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1999 BBC television documentary Walking with Dinosaurs.

In contrast, historian Ben Rubin argues that because the American Revolution was a conflict that as often pitted neighbor against neighbor — Whigs ( advocates of Revolution ) against Tories ( loyalists to Britain )— as it pitted nascent Americans against the British, many people stayed neutral until goaded into taking a stand in reaction to military atrocities, such as those attributed to Tarleton, or individual atrocities, such as the death of Thomas Young's brother, or the burning of Thomas Sumter's house and the abuse of his wife, or the interrogation at knife point of William Bratton's wife, the beating of their young son, and the family's imprisonment in their own attic -- individual atrocities similar to those depicted in The Patriot.

* Scramm-A likable young man, depicted as a simple soul who dropped out of school and married early, Scramm is the " Vegas favorite ", with 9 to 1 odds.

Pasko's main arc depicted Swamp Thing roaming the globe, trying to stop a young girl ( and possible Anti-Christ ) named Karen Clancy from destroying the world.

Friesennot depicted the suffering of a village of Volga Germans in the Soviet Union ; it also depicted the murder of a young woman for an affair with a Russian -- in accordance with Nazi principle of rassenschande -- as an ancient German custom.

" According to P. W. Singer, the FARC attack upon the Guatape hydroelectric facility in 1998 had allegedly involved militants as young as 8 years old and a 2001 FARC training video depicted boys as young as 11 working with missiles.