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 also the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante come across within the walls of Dis ( the fallen angels, Erinyes, and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX ).

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.

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

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.

From Classical times through the Renaissance, the Minotaur appears at the center of many depictions of the Labyrinth.

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.

* Minotaur in Greek Myth source Greek texts and art.

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

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

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 ".

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, again named Asterius, the Minotaur, half man half bull.

Daedalus then built a complicated " chamber that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way " called the Labyrinth, and Minos put the Minotaur in it.

To make sure no one would ever know the secret of who the Minotaur was and how to get out of the Labyrinth ( Daedalus knew both of these things ), Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, along with the monster.

The labyrinth was both a winding dance-ground and in the Greek view a prison with the dreaded Minotaur at its centre.

; Minotaur: A monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

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.

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.

This led him to believe that his son had been killed in his contest with the dreaded Minotaur, a monster that was half man and half bull.

The album follows the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flight of Daedalus and Icarus to escape the labyrinth of the Minotaur in " Too Close To The Sun ", through Leonardo da Vinci's search to design a flying machine, or ornithopter, in long-time Project drummer Stuart Elliott's " One Day To Fly ", until finally mankind's aspirations for space exploration placed on the shoulders of a single astronaut in " So Far Away " and the subsequent superpower race to put a man on the moon in " Apollo ", a track backed by John F. Kennedy's famous speech of May 25, 1961.

As the Green Mystic Ranger, he draws his power from the earth and can transform into the Mystic Minotaur, the half bull and half man. He was portrayed by Richard Brancatisano.