Theseus sets out to kill the Minotaurĭetermined to save the lives of the 13 other youth, Theseus is said to have volunteered to be the first youth to make his way into the giant maze. The Athenian ruler, King Aegeus, could not say no to the demands of Minos as Athens had become a kind of vassal state of Crete. Those youth were then sacrificed to the Minotaur. seven boys and seven girls – to Crete every nine years. In a different variation of the myth, the Athenians sent their tributes – i.e. The Cretan king demanded Athens send seven young men and women to Crete as annual tribute. Heartbroken and raging mad over the death of his son, King Minos decided to inflict a very steep punishment on the Athenians. During the Marathon, Androgeus was accidentally killed by the bull that mated with his mother Pasiphae. The death of Androgeus, the son of King MinosĪndrogeus, the only son of King Minos, travelled to Athens to partake in the Panathenaic Games. Those terrifying inventions resulted in the neighboring city states like Athens being forced to pay heavy tributes to King Minos. The kingdom became the mightiest island because of the very powerful instrument of war it possessed. Under the rulership of King Minos, Crete rose to regional dominance kind courtesy to the works of its great inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus. The ancient city of Crete was at the time so powerful that it had succeeded in bringing the city of Athens under its control, The myth goes on to say that King Minos fed the Minotaur with the young men and women he took from Athens. As the Minotaur grew older, so did its thirst for human flesh and blood become uncontrollable. Out of this unnatural union came forth the Minotaur, a half man half bull creature. Incensed by King Minos’s action, Poseidon placed a charm on Minos’s wife Pasiphae which made the Queen sleep with the bull. Minos, who had been ordered by Poseidon to sacrifice the bull to the gods, decided to keep the bull since he had grown attached to the bull. Poseidon answered Minos’s prayer and sent him a white, spotless bull as a sign to the people that Minos was favored by the gods. In a fierce competition for the throne of Crete between Minos and his brothers, the former prayed to the Greek god of the sea Poseidon to come to his aid. From the feet as far up the waist, the Minotaur was a man however, from the waist upward it was a huge black massive horned bull.| Image: The Minotaur, tondo of an Attic bilingual kylix.
The Minotaur in Greek mythology is flesh-devouring beast that terrorized King Minos’s kingdom.
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