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Crete and Minotaur
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.
He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur ( part man, part bull ) was kept.
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.
The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan Crete.
The Minotaur ( infamia di Creti, " infamy of Crete "), appears briefly in Dante's Inferno, in Canto 12 ( l. 12-13, 16-21 ), where Dante and Virgil find themselves picking their way among boulders dislodged on the slope, and preparing to enter into the Seventh Circle.
Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.
Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete, had several children before the Minotaur.
He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.
Theseus is played by Bob Mathias in the 1960 film Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete, and by Tom Hardy in the 2006 film Minotaur.
Theseus had been sent to his overlord Minos of Crete as an offering to the Minotaur.
One legend has it that in the Heroic Age before the Trojan War, Theseus abandoned the princess Ariadne of Crete on this island after she helped him kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth.
In the myth, we are told that Athens sent seven young men and seven young women to Crete as human sacrifices to the Minotaur.
Icarus's father Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.
Some forms of Greek mythology associated the constellation with the tame white bull, in some versions Zeus in disguise, that seduced Europa and took her to Crete ( Minos ), whereas others associate it with the white bull that fathered the Minotaur.
Theseus then went to Crete where he killed the Minotaur with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.
* Minotaur, The ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Theseus Against the Minotaur, a. k. a. The Warlord of Crete
* Minotaur, The ( 1961 ) a. k. a. Theseus Against the Minotaur, a. k. a. The Warlord of Crete
* Island of the Minotaur: Greek Myths of Ancient Crete ( 2003 )
Pathways began as a sequel to Bungie's Minotaur: The Labyrinths of Crete, before the developers created an original story.
See also " Minotaur and The Bull of Crete " ( below ) for a later incarnation to the Minoan Bull.
For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred bull of Marathon ( the " Marathonian bull ") before he faced the Bull-man, the Minotaur ( Greek for " Bull of Minos "), whom the Greeks imagined as a man with the head of a bull at the center of the labyrinth.

Crete and was
Apollo Delphinios was a sea-god especially worshiped in Crete and in the islands, and his name indicates his connection with Delphi and the holy serpent Delphyne ( womb ).
The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.
From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.
In ancient times, the sea was the birthplace of two ancient civilizations – the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenean Civilization of the Peloponnese.
Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.
After this his name is not mentioned until after Paul's first imprisonment, when he was engaged in the organization of the church in Crete, where Paul had left him for this purpose.
His relics, now consisting of only his skull, are venerated in the Church of St. Titus, Heraklion, Crete to which it was returned in 1966 after being removed to Venice during the Turkish occupation.
In order to spare the economy of the community, it was ordered that appeals from the governor's decision should be heard on Crete, instead of Venice.
Jerome states that Apollos was so dissatisfied with the division at Corinth, that he retired to Crete with Zenas, a doctor of the law ; and that the schism having been healed by Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Apollos returned to the city, and became its bishop.
It is believed that a precursor of Artemis was worshiped in Minoan Crete as the goddess of mountains and hunting, Britomartis.
Nelson's first set of dispatches were captured when Leander was intercepted and defeated by Généreux in a fierce engagement off the western shore of Crete on 18 August 1798.
* From " Crete ", where iodine insufficiency ( hypothyroidism ) was common prior to the modern era.
Crete was the centre of the Minoan civilization (), the earliest civilization in Europe, comprising the first palaces in Europe.
The original Arabic name of Crete was Iqrīṭiš ( < ( της ) Κρήτης ), but after the Emirate of Crete's establishment of its new capital at ربض الخندق Rabḍ al-ḫandaq ( modern Iraklion ), both the city and the island became known as Χάνδαξ ( Khandhax ) or Χάνδακας ( Khandhakas ), which gave Latin and Venetian Candia, from which French Candie and English Candy or Candia.
Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit ( Ottoman Turkish: كريت, as recorded by Piri Reis ).
In the Renaissance, Crete was the home of the Cretan School of icon painting, which influenced El Greco and through him subsequent European painting.
Later, Cretans believed that the island was cleared of dangerous creatures by the Apostle Paul, who lived on the island of Crete for two years, with his exorcisms and blessings.
Early Cycladic culture evolved in three phases, between ca 3300-2000 BCE, when it was increasingly swamped in the rising influence of Minoan Crete.
Epimenides was a 6th Century BC philosopher and religious prophet who, against the general sentiment of Crete, proposed that Zeus was immortal, as in the following poem:
Titus was later left on the island of Crete to help organize the Church, although he soon went to Dalmatia, Croatia.
He was buried in Cortyna ( Gortyna ), Crete ; his head was later translated to Venice during the invasion of Crete by the Saracens in 832 and was enshrined in St. Mark ’ s, Venice, Italy.

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