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Minotaur
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Minotaur bust, (National Archaeological Museum of Athens)

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Parents Cretan Bull and Pasiphaë

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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur (/ˈmaɪnətɔː/, /ˈmɪnəˌtɔr/; Ancient Greek: Μῑνώταυρος [miːnɔ̌ːtau̯ros], Latin:
Minotaurus, Etruscan Θevrumineś), was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man[2] or, as described by
Roman poet Ovid, "part man and part bull".[3] He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate
maze-like construction[4] designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of
Crete. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.
The term Minotaur derives from the Ancient Greek Μῑνώταυρος, a compound of the name Μίνως (Minos) and the
noun ταύρος "bull", translated as "(the) Bull of Minos". In Crete, the Minotaur was known by its proper name,
Asterion,[5] a name shared with Minos' foster-father.[6]
"Minotaur" was originally a proper noun in reference to this mythical figure. The use of "minotaur" as a common
noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century fantasy
genre fiction.
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Birth and appearance

After he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers to rule.
Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support
(the Cretan Bull). He was to kill the bull to show honor to Poseidon, but decided
to keep it instead because of its beauty. He thought Poseidon would not care if he
kept the white bull and sacrificed one of his own. To punish Minos, Aphrodite
made Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the
archetypal craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow, and climbed inside it
in order to mate with the white bull. The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur.
Pasiphaë nursed him in his infancy, but he grew and became ferocious, being the
unnatural offspring of man and beast, he had no natural source of nourishment
and thus devoured man for sustenance. Minos, after getting advice from the
oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the
Minotaur. Its location was near Minos' palace in Knossos.
The bronze "Horned God" from
Enkomi, Cyprus
Nowhere has the essence of the myth been expressed more succinctly than in the
Heroides attributed to Ovid, where Pasiphaë's daughter complains of the curse of
her unrequited love: "The bull's form disguised the god, Pasiphaë, my mother, a victim of the deluded bull, brought
forth in travail her reproach and burden."[7] Literalist and prurient readings that emphasize the machinery of actual
copulation may, perhaps intentionally, obscure the mystic marriage of the god in bull form, a Minoan mythos alien to
the Greeks.[8]

The Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. One of
the figurations assumed by the river god Achelous in wooing Deianira is as a man with the head of a bull, according
to Sophocles' Trachiniai.
From Classical times through the Renaissance, the Minotaur appears at the center of many depictions of the
Labyrinth.[9] Ovid's Latin account of the Minotaur, which did not elaborate on which half was bull and which half
man, was the most widely available during the Middle Ages, and several later versions show the reverse of the
Classical configuration, a man's head and torso on a bull's body, reminiscent of a centaur.[10] This alternative
tradition survived into the Renaissance, and still figures in some modern depictions, such as Steele Savage's
illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology (1942).
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Theseus and the Minotaur

Androgeus, son of Minos, had been killed by the Athenians, who were
jealous of the victories he had won at the Panathenaic festival. Others
say he was killed at Marathon by the Cretan bull, his mother's former
taurine lover, which Aegeus, king of Athens, had commanded him to
slay. The common tradition is that Minos waged war to avenge the
death of his son and won. Catullus, in his account of the Minotaur's
birth,[11] refers to another version in which Athens was "compelled by
the cruel plague to pay penalties for the killing of Androgeos." Aegeus
must avert the plague caused by his crime by sending "young men at
the same time as the best of unwed girls as a feast" to the Minotaur.
Minos required that seven Athenian youths and seven maidens, drawn
by lots, be sent every seventh or ninth year (some accounts say every
year[12]) to be devoured by the Minotaur.

When the third sacrifice approached, Theseus volunteered to slay the

monster. He promised to his father, Aegeus, that he would put up a
Rhyton in the shape of a bull's head, Heraklion
Archaeological Museum; shown here at the white sail on his journey back home if he was successful and would
Greek pavilion at Expo '88 have the crew put up black sails if he was killed. In Crete, Minos'
daughter Ariadne fell madly in love with Theseus and helped him
navigate the labyrinth. In most accounts she gave him a ball of thread, allowing him to retrace his path. Theseus
killed the Minotaur with the sword of Aegeus and led the other Athenians back out of the labyrinth. On the way
home, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos and continued. He neglected, however, to put up the white
sail. King Aegeus, from his lookout on Cape Sounion, saw the black-sailed ship approach and, presuming his son
dead, committed suicide by throwing himself into the sea that is since named after him.[13] This act secured the
throne for Theseus.

Etruscan view
This essentially Athenian view of the Minotaur as the antagonist of
Theseus reflects the literary sources, which are biased in favour of
Athenian perspectives. The Etruscans, who paired Ariadne with
Dionysus, never with Theseus, offered an alternative Etruscan view of
the Minotaur, never seen in Greek arts: on an Etruscan red-figure
wine-cup of the early-to-mid fourth century Pasiphaë tenderly cradles
an infant Minotaur on her knee.[14]

Pasiphaë and the Minotaur, Attic red-figure kylix

found at Etruscan Vulci (Cabinet des Médailles,
Paris)
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Interpretations
The contest between Theseus and the Minotaur was frequently
represented in Greek art. A Knossian didrachm exhibits on one side the
labyrinth, on the other the Minotaur surrounded by a semicircle of
small balls, probably intended for stars; one of the monster's names
was Asterion ("star").
The ruins of Minos' palace at Knossos have been found, but the
labyrinth has not. The enormous number of rooms, staircases and
corridors in the palace has led some archaeologists to suggest that the
palace itself was the source of the labyrinth myth, an idea generally
discredited today.[15] Homer, describing the shield of Achilles,
remarked that the labyrinth was Ariadne's ceremonial dancing ground.

Some modern mythologists regard the Minotaur as a solar

Theseus fighting the Minotaur by Jean-Etienne personification and a Minoan adaptation of the Baal-Moloch of the
Ramey, marble, 1826, Tuileries Gardens, Paris
Phoenicians. The slaying of the Minotaur by Theseus in that case
indicates the breaking of Athenian tributary relations with Minoan
Crete.
According to A. B. Cook, Minos and Minotaur are only different forms
of the same personage, representing the sun-god of the Cretans, who
depicted the sun as a bull. He and J. G. Frazer both explain Pasiphaë's
union with the bull as a sacred ceremony, at which the queen of
Knossos was wedded to a bull-formed god, just as the wife of the
Tyrant in Athens was wedded to Dionysus. E. Pottier, who does not
dispute the historical personality of Minos, in view of the story of
Phalaris, considers it probable that in Crete (where a bull-cult may
have existed by the side of that of the labrys) victims were tortured by
being shut up in the belly of a red-hot brazen bull. The story of Talos, The Minotaur in the Labyrinth, engraving of a
16th-century CE gem in the Medici Collection in
the Cretan man of brass, who heated himself red-hot and clasped [16]
the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
strangers in his embrace as soon as they landed on the island, is
probably of similar origin.

A historical explanation of the myth refers to the time when Crete was the main political and cultural potency in the
Aegean Sea. As the fledgling Athens (and probably other continental Greek cities) was under tribute to Crete, it can
be assumed that such tribute included young men and women for sacrifice. This ceremony was performed by a priest
disguised with a bull head or mask, thus explaining the imagery of the Minotaur. It may also be that this priest was
son to Minos.[citation needed]
Once continental Greece was free from Crete's dominance, the myth of the Minotaur worked to distance the forming
religious consciousness of the Hellene poleis from Minoan beliefs.
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The Minotaur in Dante's Inferno

The Minotaur (infamia di Creti, "infamy of Crete"), appears briefly in
Dante's Inferno, in Canto 12 (l. 12–13, 16–21), where Dante and his
guide Virgil find themselves picking their way among boulders
dislodged on the slope, and preparing to enter into the Seventh Circle
of Hell.[17]
Dante and Virgil encounter the beast first among the "men of blood":
those damned for their violent natures. Many commentators believe
that Dante, in a reversal of classical tradition, bestowed the beast with
a man's head upon a bull's body.[18] William Blake's image of the Minotaur to
illustrate Inferno XII

Inferno, Canto XII, lines 16–20 English translation

Lo savio mio inver' lui grido: "Forse My sage cried out to him: "You think,
tu credi che qui sia 'l duca d'Atene, perhaps, this is the Duke of Athens,
che sú nel mondo la morte ti porse? who in the world put you to death.
Pártiti, bestia, ché questi non vene Get away, you beast, for this man
ammaestrato da la tua sorella, does not come tutored by your sister;
ma vassi per veder la vostre pene." he comes to view your punishments."

In these lines Virgil taunts the Minotaur in order to distract him, and reminds the Minotaur that he was killed by
Theseus the Duke of Athens with the help of the monster's half-sister Ariadne. The Minotaur is the first infernal
guardian whom Virgil and Dante encounter within the walls of Dis.[19] The Minotaur seems to represent the entire
zone of Violence, much as Geryon represents Fraud in Canto XVI, and serves a similar role as gatekeeper for the
entire seventh Circle.[20]
Giovanni Boccaccio writes of the Minotaur in his literary commentary of the Commedia: "When he had grown up
and become a most ferocious animal, and of incredible strength, they tell that Minos had him shut up in a prison
called the labyrinth, and that he had sent to him there all those whom he wanted to die a cruel death".[21] Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, in his own commentary,[22][23] compares the Minotaur with all three sins of violence within the
seventh circle: "The Minotaur, who is situated at the rim of the tripartite circle, fed, according to the poem was biting
himself (violence against oneself) and was conceived in the 'false cow' (violence against nature, daughter of God)."
Virgil and Dante then pass quickly by to the centaurs (Nessus, Chiron, Pholus, and Nessus) who guard the Flegetonte
("river of blood"), to continue through the seventh Circle.[24]
This unusual association of the Minotaur with Centaurs, not made in any Classical source, is shown visually in
William Blake's rendering of the Minotaur (illustration) as a kind of taurine centaur himself.
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Popular culture
• In an episode in Batman: The Animated Series titled 'If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?', the Riddler
recreates the Minotaur's labyrinth as one of his riddles to be solved by Batman and Robin for saving a
businessman's life. The maze has a robotic Minotaur in its center, which provides the final riddle for solving the
maze.
• The Minotaur appears in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians books The Lightning Thief and The Last
Olympian and also the first book's film adaption Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
• A minotaur, or minotaur-like creature, appeared in the Doctor Who stories "The Mind Robber" (1968) "The Time
Monster" (1972), "The Horns of Nimon" (1979) and "The God Complex" (2011). The 4th Doctor also claims to
have given Theseus the ball of string to navigate the labyrinth.
• A Minotaur appeared in the third season of "American Horror Story." The season was called "American Horror
Story: Coven." In the show, Delphine LaLaurie, a serial killer and socialite, tortures her slaves in horrible ways.
Upon discovering that one of her houseboys, Bastien, has had sex with one of her daughters, the sadistic
slave-owner takes the severed head of a bull and attaches it to him. LaLaurie explains that ever since she was a
little girl she has had a fascination with Greek mythology, in particular the Minotaur, and is thrilled at the
opportunity to finally have one of her own.
• In the movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Minotaurs are followers of the
fictional queen.
• Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The House of Asterion" (collected in The Aleph) tells the Minotaur's story.
• Mark Z. Danielewski's novel "House of Leaves" features both the labyrinth and the Minotaur as prominent
themes

Notes
[1] http:/ / en. wikipedia. org/ w/ index. php?title=Template:Greek_myth& action=edit
[2] "Minotaur" (http:/ / dictionary. reference. com/ browse/ Minotaur) at dictionary.reference.com
[3] semibovemque virum semivirumque bovem, according to Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.24, one of the three lines that his friends would have deleted
from his work, and one of the three that he, selecting independently, would preserve at all cost, in the apocryphal anecdote told by
Albinovanus Pedo. (noted by J. S. Rusten, "Ovid, Empedocles and the Minotaur" The American Journal of Philology 103.3 (Autumn 1982,
pp. 332-333) p. 332.
[4] Labyrinth patterns as painted or inscribed do not have dead ends like a maze; instead, a single path winds to the center, where, with a single
turn, the alternate path leads out again. See Kern, Through the Labyrinth, Prestel, 2000, Chapter 1, and Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth,
Cornell University Press, 1990, Chapter 2.
[5] Pausanias, Description of Greece 2. 31. 1
[6] The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women fr. 140, says of Zeus' establishment of Europa in Crete: "...he made her live with Asterion the king of the
Cretans. There she conceived and bore three sons, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys."
[7] Walter Burkert notes the fragment of Euripides' The Cretans (C. Austin's frs. 78-82) as the "authoritative version" for the Hellenes.
[8] See R.F. Willetts, Cretan Cults and Festivals (London, 1962); Pasiphaë's union with the bull has been recognized as a mystical union for over
a century: F. B. Jevons ("Report on Greek Mythology" Folklore 2.2 [June 1891:220-241] p. 226) notes of Europa and Pasiphaë, "The kernel of
both myths is the union of the moon-spirit (in human shape) with a bull; both myths, then, have to do with a sacred marriage."
[9] Several examples are shown in Kern, Through the Labyrinth, Prestel, 2000.
[10] Examples include illustrations 204, 237, 238, and 371 in Kern. op. cit.
[11] Carmen 64 (http:/ / rudy. negenborn. net/ catullus/ text2/ e64. htm).
[12] Servius on Aeneid, 6. 14: singulis quibusque annis "every one year". The annual period is given by J. E. Zimmerman, Dictionary of
Classical Mythology, Harper & Row, 1964, article "Androgeus"; and H. J. Rose, A Handbook of Greek Mythology, Dutton, 1959, p. 265.
Zimmerman cites Virgil, Apollodorus, and Pausanias. The nine-year period appears in Plutarch and Ovid.
[13] Plutarch, Theseus, 15—19; Diodorus Siculus i. I6, iv. 61; Bibliotheke iii. 1,15
[14] The wine cup is illustrated in Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling, Etruscan Mythology (Series The Legendary Past, British Museum /
University of Texas) 2006, fig.29 p. 44 ("early fourth century") ( on-line illustration (http:/ / bama. ua. edu/ ~ksummers/ cl222/ LECT14/
sld029. htm)).
[15] Sir Arthur Evans, the first of many archaeologists who have worked at Knossos, is often given credit for this idea, but he did not himself
believe it; see David McCullough, The Unending Mystery, Pantheon, 2004, p. 34-36. Modern scholarship generally discounts the idea; see
Kern, Through the Labyrinth, Prestel, 2000, p. 42-43, and Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth, Cornell University Press, p. 1990, p. 25.
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[16] Paolo Alessandro Maffei, Gemmae Antiche, 1709, Pt. IV, pl. 31; Hermann Kern, Through the Labyrinth, Prestel, 2000, fig. 371, p. 202):
Maffei "erroneously deemed the piece to be from Classical antiquity".
[17] The traverse of this circle is a long one, filling Cantos 12 to 17.
[18] Inferno XII, Verse Translation by Dr. R. Hollander, p. 228 commentary
[19] The fallen angels, the Erinyes [Furies], and the unseen Medusa were located on the city's defensive ramparts in Canto IX.
[20] Boccaccio Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine commentary
[21] Boccaccio's Expositions on Dante's Comedy, University of Toronto Press, 30 Nov 2009
[22] Bennett, Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 177-180.
[23] Dante Family letters Rossetti Archive http:/ / www. rossettiarchive. org/ docs/ pr5246. a43. vol2. rad. html
[24] Beck, Christopher, "Justice among the Centaurs," Forum Italcium 18 (1984): 217-29

References
• Minotaur in Greek Myth (http://www.theoi.com/Ther/Minotauros.html) source Greek texts and art.

External links
• The dictionary definition of Minotaur at Wiktionary
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