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Minotaur

In Greek mythology, a monster with a man's body and bull's head, offspring of Pasiphaë, wife of King Minos of Crete, and a bull sent by Poseidon. It was housed in a Labyrinth designed by Daedalus at Knossos, and its victims were seven girls and seven youths sent in annual tribute by Athens. The beast was killed by Theseus with the aid of Ariadne, daughter of Minos.

Minoan murals found among the labyrinthine ruins of Knossos depict public acrobatics performed on bulls by young men and women.



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"Let the people of Athens this year draw lots for only six young men, instead of seven," said he, "I will myself be the seventh; and let the Minotaur devour me if he can
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
(50) For his murder Minos exacted a yearly tribute of boys and girls, to be devoured by the Minotaur, from the Athenians.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
You have been brought up in some of those horrible notions that choose the sweetest women to devour--like Minotaurs And now you will go and be shut up in that stone prison at Lowick: you will be buried alive.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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