The term Minotaur derives from the Ancient Greek, a compound of the name ( Minos ) and the noun " bull ", translated as "( the ) Bull of Minos ".

Minos, after getting advice from the oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur.

Once continental Greece was free from Crete's dominance, the myth of the Minotaur worked to distance the forming religious consciousness of the Hellene poleis from Minoan beliefs.

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.

More recently Sir Harrison Birtwistle has emerged as one of Britain's most significant contemporary composers from his first opera Punch and Judy to his most recent critical success in The Minotaur.

A young Minotaur is depicted on a seal from Knossos.

She was also the mother of " starlike " Asterion, called by the Greeks the Minotaur, after a curse from Poseidon caused her to experience lust for and mate with a white bull sent by Poseidon.

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.

Many of them were inscribed with Knosion or Knos on the obverse and an image of a Minotaur or Labyrinth on the reverse, both symbols deriving from the myth of King Minos, supposed to have reigned from Knossos.

410 BCE ) Theseus drags the Minotaur from a temple-like labyrinth, but the goddess who attends him, in this Attic representation, is Athena.

The Cretan Bull which fathered the Minotaur was originally calm and sent from Poseidon, but king Minos whom it was sent to fell out of favor with Poseidon, and so in some versions of the story, Poseidon made the bull angry.

These galleries concentrate on works dated 1600 to 1950 by British sculptors, works by continental sculptors who worked in Britain, and works bought by British patrons from the continental sculptors, such as Canova's Theseus and the Minotaur.

Vandenberg AFB is a Department of Defense space and missile testing base, with a mission of placing satellites into polar orbit from the West Coast, using expendable boosters ( Pegasus, Taurus, Minotaur, Atlas V and Delta IV ).

Part of a joint DoD / NASA payload, it was launched by a Minotaur IV rocket from the Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska.

They suggested that such descriptions of Moloch might be simply taken from accounts of the sacrifice to Cronus and from the tale of the Minotaur ; They found no evidence of a bull-headed Phoenician god.

The private launch firm Orbital Sciences Corporation has developed the Minotaur IV, a four-stage civilian expendable launch system, from the Peacekeeper, using old Peacekeeper components.

It was discovered in 1908 by Philibert Jacques Melotte and later named after the mythological Pasiphaë, wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur from Greek legend.

The third Annual is set during Tim's time in America, and sees him saving a child abuse victim from similar abuse at the hands of the Minotaur, transported to modern day America to hide in a nightclub called The Labyrinth.

Theseus fought to save his homeland, killing the Minotaur to stop the flow of sacrifices that were taken from Athens on a yearly basis to feed the beast.

The SNES game had Riddler reusing the Riddle of the Minotaur Maze from " If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?

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.

The above lines are of Virgil taunting the Minotaur in order to distract him, and reminding the Minotaur that he was killed by Theseus the Duke of Athens, and instructed by the monster's " sister " Ariadne.

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

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.

Egaeus may come from Aegeus, a legendary king of Athens who had committed suicide when he thought his son Theseus had died attempting to kill the Minotaur.

He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur ( part man, part bull ) was kept.

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (,, Etruscan Θevrumineś ), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, " part man and part bull ".

It was preceded by several TV movies with the same major characters in 1994 as part of Universal Television's Action Pack: in order, Hercules and the Amazon Women, Hercules and the Lost Kingdom, Hercules and the Circle of Fire, Hercules in the Underworld, and Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur, the last of which served mostly as a " clip show " of the previous movies as a lead up to the series.

Her father put her in charge of the labyrinth where sacrifices were made as part of reparations ( either to Poseidon or to Athena, depending on the version of the myth ); however, she would later help Theseus in overcoming the Minotaur and saving the would-be sacrificial victims.

( There is no historicity to the assertion of Diodorus Siculus that this was the model for the labyrinth of Crete that Greeks imagined housed the Minotaur ,) The demolition of the " labyrinth " may date in part to the reign of Ptolemy II, under whom the Pharaonic city of Shedyt ( Greek Crocodilopolis, the modern Medinet el-Fayum ) was renamed to honour his sister-wife Arsinoë ; a massive Ptolemaic building program at Arsinoe has been suggested as the ultimate destination of Middle Kingdom limestone columns and blocks removed from Hawara, and now lost.

On the three plinths radiating from the central column there are figures representing Diana, the goddess of purity ; a group representing the good things of the earth ; Theseus slaying a Minotaur, representing the sacrifice for the good of humanity.

These include the Japanese group Corrupted and contemporary American groups such as Lair of the Minotaur, Old Man Gloom and Kylesa.

Thus several amphoras of this group show Heracles with Geryon or the Nemean Lion, and increasingly Theseus and the Minotaur, as well as the birth of Athena.

Theseus and the Minotaur, V & A, London

The work which first established his fame at Rome was Theseus Vanquishing the Minotaur, now in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, in London.

This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos ' daughter.

On 14 August, Nelson sent Orion, Majestic, Bellerophon, Minotaur, Defence, Audacious, Theseus, Franklin, Tonnant, Aquilon, Conquérant, Peuple Souverain and Spartiate to sea under the command of Saumarez.

Some stories he refers to are the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, the departure of the Argonauts, Theseus and the Minotaur, Ariadne ’ s abandonment, Tereus and Procne, as well as Protesilaus and Laodamia.

In the story of the labyrinth Hellenes told, the Athenian hero Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.

Ancient Rome | Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur.

Its function was to hold the Minotaur, a mythical creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

Theseus killed the Minotaur with the sword of Aegeus and led the other Athenians back out of the labyrinth.

This essentially Athenian view of the Minotaur as the antagonist of Theseus reflects the literary sources, which are biased in favour of Athenian perspectives.

The Etruscans, who paired Ariadne with Dionysus, never with Theseus, offered an alternative Etruscan view of the Minotaur, never seen in Greek arts: on an Etruscan red-figure wine-cup of the early-to-mid fourth century Pasiphaë tenderly cradles an infant Minotaur on her knee.

Theseus fighting the Minotaur by Jean-Etienne Ramey, marble, 1826, Tuileries Gardens, Paris

The contest between Theseus and the Minotaur was frequently represented in Greek art.

The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan Crete.

It would be to this Minos that we owe the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisus.

The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.

Theseus was said to have utilized his extraordinary pankration skills to defeat the dreaded Minotaur in the Labyrinth.

Theseus Slaying Minotaur ( 1843 ), bronze sculpture by Antoine-Louis Barye

Plutarch's vita ( a literalistic biography ) of Theseus makes use of varying accounts of the death of the Minotaur, Theseus ' escape, and the love of Ariadne for Theseus.