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.

Upon his departure, Aegeus told him to put up white sails when returning if he was successful in killing the Minotaur.

Although Spartiate was outnumbered, it had been supported by the next in line Aquilon, which uniquely of the French van squadron was fighting only one opponent, Minotaur.

Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.

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

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.

Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit multicursal patterns, the unicursal seven-course " Classical " design became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and became widely used to represent the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.

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.

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 ".

The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.

In Crete, the Minotaur was known by its proper name, Asterion, a name shared with Minos ' foster-father.

The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur.

Ovid's Latin account of the Minotaur, which did not elaborate on which half was bull and which half man, was the most widely available during the Middle Ages, and several later versions show the reverse of the Classical configuration, a man's head and torso on a bull's body, reminiscent of a centaur.

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

A Knossian didrachm exhibits on one side the labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of small balls, probably intended for stars ; one of the monster's names was Asterion (" star ").

This ceremony was performed by a priest disguised with a bull head or mask, thus explaining the imagery of 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.

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.

Whereas Dante Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the seventh circle: " The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting himself ( violence against oneself ) and was conceived in the ' false cow ' ( violence against nature, daughter of God ).

Kerenyi observes that her name is merely an epithet and claims that she was originally the " Mistress of the Labyrinth ", both a winding dance-ground and in the Greek view a prison with the dreaded Minotaur at its centre.

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.

One of the more prominent of these is Theseus and the Minotaur, which was originally published in the book Mad Mazes.

Mozilla Thunderbird was originally launched as Minotaur shortly after Phoenix ( the original name for Mozilla Firefox ), the project failed to gain momentum.

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 ( mythical ) Father of the Minotaur

Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of " padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality " and the symbolic figure of " The Minotaur of London " confirmed European observers worst imaginings about " Le Sadisme anglais " and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen.

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.

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

The next three British ships, Vanguard in the lead followed by HMS Minotaur and HMS Defence, remained in line of battle formation and anchored on the starboard side of the French line at 18: 40.

Nelson focused his flagship's fire on Spartiate, while Captain Thomas Louis in Minotaur attacked the unengaged Aquilon and Captain John Peyton in Defence joined the attack on Peuple Souverain.

With his opponent defeated, Captain Thomas Louis then took Minotaur south to join the attack on Franklin.

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.

Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur.

A cow-headed Hera, like a Minotaur would be at odds with the maternal image of the later classical period.

Ancient Rome | Roman mosaic picturing Theseus and the Minotaur.

By extension, in popular legend the palace is associated with the myth of the Minotaur.

Often an image of the Minotaur appears in the centre of these mosaic labyrinths.

File: Conímbriga minotauro. jpg | Minotaur in Labyrinth — a Roman mosaic at Conímbriga, Portugal

File: Minotaurus. gif | Minotaur at center of labyrinth, on a 16th-century gem.

* In the 2010 video game, God of War III ( which is loosely based on Greek mythology ), Daedalus and the Labyrinth are featured but instead of the Labyrinth imprisoning the Minotaur, it imprisons Pandora.