One day Theseus, son of King Aegeus from Athens, offered himself to defeat the Minotaur and left to Crete. Here he was given a ball of thread by Adriadne, daughter of Minos, to guarantee his escape from the labyrinth by unrolling the thread his way back out of the labyrinth. After killing the Minotaur, Theseus and Ariadne left Crete...
On the island of Naxos Theseus was ordered by Dyonisos, God of Wine, to abandon Ariadne, as Dyonisos fell in love with her...
The Greek mythology is litterally the knowledge of the Greek myths. They formed the basis of believing and thinking by the old Greeks. Below is one of many well-known Greek myths; About Theseus and the Minotaur…
According to the Greek mythology Zeus was born in a cave high up in the Lassithi Mountains. He grew up in a cave on the Ida Mountains and became one of the most powerful Gods. After a long and violent episode his father was dethroned and Zeus became the most powerful among all Gods...
Zeus married his sister Hera and chose mount Limbus as his residence and pursued his
greatest pleasure: Love!
Disguised as a bull he kidnapped the gorcious princess “Europe”
to Crete. He came to shore in Matala and seduced her under the always green
plane tree in Gortys. Out of this relationship three sons were born: Minos,
Rhadamantys, and Sarpedon...
Minos was taught the art of leadership by his father and became king and legislature of Crete at a later stage...
To demonstrate his power Minos asked Poseidon, God of the Sea, for a sacrifice present....
Poseidon granted him a beautiful white bull which Minos found too nicely to sacrifice. Instead he added the white bull to his herd and sacrificed an ordinary one...
Poseidon became very angry and ensured that Pasiphae, the woman of Minos, became amorous on the bull. After making love with the bull she bore the Minotaur, a creature half human, half bull. The Minotaur destroyed and ate everything on his way...
Architect Dedalos was assigned to build the labyrinth Knossos in order to lock up the Minotaur. Andregos, son of Minos, was assassinated by King Aegeus of Athens. As a penalty Athens every nine years had to send seven boys and seven maidens to Crete as food for the ferocious Minotaur...
While sailing back home again, Theseus was so distraught at having left Ariadne that he forgot to change the black sails as the sign of victory, as he had promised is father...
His father, King Aegeus, stood on a cliff waiting for the ship to return. At last he sighted the black sails and thought his son had been killed by the Minotaur. Grief stricken, the king jumped off the cliff into the sea and drowned. That sea is called the Aegean Sea in his memory...
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