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In Greek mythology, the Minotaur [b] (Ancient Greek: Μινώταυρος, Mīnṓtauros), also known as Asterion, is a mythical creature portrayed during classical antiquity with the head and tail of a bull and the body of a man [4] (p 34) or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, a being "part man and part bull".
An image of the Minotaur or an allusion to the legend of the Minotaur appears at the center of many of these mosaic labyrinths. The four-axis pattern as executed in Chartres Cathedral (early 1200s) The four-axis medieval patterns may have developed from the Roman model, but are more varied in how the four quadrants of the design are traced out.
The Minotaur by George Frederic Watts, 1885. In the epilogue to his 1949 short-story collection The Aleph, Borges wrote that the inspiration for "The House of Asterion" and the "character of its sad protagonist" was The Minotaur, a painting completed in 1885 by English artist George Frederic Watts. [3]
The child was named Asterius, after the previous king, but was commonly called the Minotaur ("the bull of Minos"). [18] [19] [20] The myth of Pasiphaë's coupling with the bull and the subsequent birth of the Minotaur was the subject of Euripides's lost play the Cretans, of which few fragments survive.
Theseus (UK: / ˈ θ iː sj uː s /, US: / ˈ θ iː s i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Θησεύς [tʰɛːsěu̯s]) was a divine hero in Greek mythology, famous for slaying the Minotaur.The myths surrounding Theseus, his journeys, exploits, and friends, have provided material for storytelling throughout the ages.
The lovers in the woods conquer irrational passion and find their way back. Bottom with his animal head becomes a comical version of the Minotaur. Bottom also becomes Ariadne's thread which guides the lovers. In having the new Minotaur rescue rather than threaten the lovers, the classical myth is comically inverted.
Ancient drachma from Larissa, around 420 BC, depicting Heracles with the Cretan Bull.Now in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland. Minos was king in Crete.In order to confirm his right to rule, rather than any of his brothers, he prayed Poseidon send him a snow-white bull as a sign.
Daedalus built a hollow, wooden cow, covered in real cow hide for Pasiphaë, so she could mate with the bull. As a result, Pasiphaë gave birth to the Minotaur, a creature with the body of a man, but the head and tail of a bull. King Minos ordered the Minotaur to be imprisoned and guarded in the Labyrinth built by Daedalus for that purpose. [33]