W.
Russell Flint
- Theseus
Killing the
Minotaur (watercolor
- 1910)
King
Minos
of Crete
once prayed
for a
bull to
emerge
from the
sea to
be sacrificed
to the
god Poseidon,
but when
his entreaty
was fulfilled
by the
appearance
of a pure
white
animal,
he resolved
to keep
it and
sacrifice
another
in its
place.
In his
anger,
Poseidon
caused
Minos'
queen
to fall
in love
with the
white
bull,
and their
copulation
produced
the Minotaur.
The offspring
was imprisoned
in the
Labyrinth
and was
given
young
men and
woman
to slake
its bloodlust.
After
many years,
Theseus,
who was
the progeny
of the
god Poseidon
and a
mortal
woman,
determined
to end
the terror
of the
Minotaur
and slew
him with
the help
of Ariadne,
King Minos'
daughter.
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