For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

When the wife of King Minos of Crete developed an unhealthy passion for a bull, she clambered inside a mechanical cow fashioned by the craftsman Daedalus and promptly conceived the Minotaur. The ...

The god then asked Aphrodite to curse Minos’ wife Pasiphaë so that she would fall in love with the bull. At some point, the Cretan Bull impregnated her, and she gave birth to the half-man, half-bull ...

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This is very different to the Labyrinth of Greek myth, which was essentially empty, aside from the Minotaur and its victims. Furthermore, the era in which King Minos himself supposedly lived was long ...

Each mound in turn triggers a memory – the dead Minotaur (slaughtered by her husband Theseus), her wedding shoes, and a dead youth, her stepson Hippolytus, slain to save her reputation as Theseus’ ...

The connection between the stories of Phaedra and Minotaur, for those who wish to brush up on their Greek Myths, is King Minos of Crete. Although the myths vary, Minos marries Pasiphaë ...