concept

Theseus and the Minotaur

Myth & story

The Hellenic episode of the tribute-hero who kills the bull-man in the labyrinth. Not Theseus as a being alone, and not minotaur as a being alone.

Hellenic religion

  • Theseus and the Minotaur appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias recounts Theseus’s Cretan deed and Athenian commemorations among Attic hero speech. A named Theseus-and-Minotaur telling in that periegesis, not minotaur being alone and not the ship-of-Theseus object alone.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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