The boat would return with the black sails if Theseus was killed.

Theseus promised his father that he would put up white sails coming back from Crete, allowing him to know in advance that he was coming back alive.

King Aegeus tried to make him change his mind but Theseus was determined to slay the Minotaur. The third year, Theseus, son of Aegeus decided to be one of the seven young men that would go to Crete, in order to kill the Minotaur and end the human sacrifices to the monster.

Minos was infuriated, and demanded Aegeus the king of Athens to send seven men and women every year to the Minotaur to advert the plague caused by the death of Androgeus. Son of Minos, Androgeus, went to Athens to participate to the Panathenaic Games, but he was killed during the Marathon by the bull that impregnated his mother Pasiphae. The labyrinth was such a complicated construction that no one could ever find the way out alive. King Minos was embarrassed, but did not want to kill the Minotaur, so he hid the monster in the Labyrinth constructed by Daedalus at the Minoan Palace of Knossos.Īccording to the myth, Minos was imprisoning his enemies in the Labyrinth so that the Minotaur could eat them. Queen Pasiphae slept with a bull sent by Zeus, and gave birth to Minotaur, a creature half man – half bull.

The Minotaur was the son of Pasiphae, wife of King Minos of Crete. Theseus, a genuine Greek hero of the Mythology and Minotaur, one of the most devastating and terrifying monsters are the main protagonists of a myth that involves gods and monsters, heroes and kings and two of the main city–states in the Hellenic world: Athens and Crete. The myth of Theseus and the Minotaur is one of the most tragic and fascinating myths of the Greek Mythology.

Monster legends facebook maze