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.

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

* 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.

The Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull.

The Minotaur seems to represent the entire zone of Violence similar to how Geryon represents Fraud in Canto XVI, and holds a similar role in that he is the gatekeeper for the entire seventh Circle.

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 ).

This unusual association of the Minotaur with Centaurs, not made in any Classical source, is shown visually in William Blake's rendering of the Minotaur ( illustration ) as a kind of taurine centaur himself.

On the Athenian stage Minos is a cruel tyrant, the heartless exactor of the tribute of Athenian youths to feed to the Minotaur.

A young Minotaur is depicted on a seal from Knossos.

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.

It is because of explosive hazard that the higher energy military solid propellants containing HMX are not used in commercial launch vehicles except when the LV is an adapted ballistic missile already containing HMX propellant ( Minotaur IV and V based on the retired Peacekeeper ICBMs ).

She is mostly associated with mazes and labyrinths, due to her involvement in the myths of the Minotaur and Theseus.

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.

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

* The Minotaur myth is referenced repeatedly as a metaphor over the course of the trilogy The Golden Age, culminating at the end with a newly " born " machine-mind adopting Ariadne as her name.

" Minotaur " is simply a name of Hellene coining to describe his Cretan iconic bull-man image: see 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 ).

It has been proposed that Morax is related to the Minotaur which Dante places in Hell ( Inferno, Canto xii ).

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.

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

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.

Theseus came to the heart of the Labyrinth and also upon the sleeping Minotaur.

See also " Minotaur and The Bull of Crete " ( below ) for a later incarnation to the Minoan Bull.

Orpheus will also encounter mythological creatures such as the: Taurus, Lamia, Cyclops, Centaur, Talos, Minotaur, Medusa, Cerberus, Stymphalian Birds, Nemean Lion and also a Siren.

The daughter also gives Theseus a golden string to help him navigate the maze, as well as a sword to kill the Minotaur.

The area was also used as a filming location for fantasy B-Movie Sinbad and The Minotaur, with Mount Coonowrin ( Crookneck ), Mount Beerwah and Mount Ngungun being shown predominantly throughout the movie.

The title refers not only to the walls of Jericho in the Bible story but also to the tunnel-walls of the labyrinth of Minos in the Greek myth, which hid Theseus and the Minotaur from each other before their final confrontation.

The company has also presented several world premieres, including most notably Meltdown, John Lazarus's astonishing retelling of the myth of Daedalus, Icarus and the Minotaur ; the collectively created community play about Kingston's social stratification, Princess Street: The Great Divide ; Fred Euringer's Night Noises, about a nineteenth-century nutritionist who connived at the starvation deaths of his own children, and Craig Walker's Chantecler, a musical based loosely on the play by Edmond Rostand and his Finnegans Wake: a dream play, an innovative adaptation from the novel by James Joyce which enjoyed a successful run not only in Kingston, but at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.

The Minotaur II, also known as Chimera and TLV, is used for suborbital flights, often as a target for tracking and anti-ballistic missile tests.

These are the Minotaur III, which will also be used for suborbital flights, and the Minotaur V, which is designed to reach higher orbits, including GTO and trans-lunar trajectories.

A Minotaur V five-stage version has also been conceptualized.

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.

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.

Michael Hurst played the character in two TV-Movies ( Hercules and the Amazon Women and Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur ) and in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys ( appearing as a recurring character in the first two seasons and a main character for the remaining seasons ).

At first the Winged Ones tried to retake it, but were ultimately forced to abandon the catacombs to the Minotaur.

Meanwhile, in 1947 he founded his own theatrical troupe, the Teatro Mimico, who by 1952 had fifty members, and the following year he wrote his first play, El Minotaura ( The Minotaur ).

Theo, the protagonist of the film and based on Theseus ( a demi-god, rather than a humble shepherd ), had no interest in killing the Minotaur at first.

Mighty Minotaur appears as the first boss in the Sega Genesis adaption to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

The original Minotaur launch vehicle, consisting of an M55A1 first stage, SR19 second stage, Orion 50XL third stage, Orion 38 fourth stage, and optional HAPS fifth stage for velocity trim and multiple payload deployment.

The Minotaur IV launch vehicle consists of an SR118 first stage, SR119 second stage, SR120 third stage, and Orion 38 fourth stage.

The first Minotaur IV was launched April 22, 2010 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.