![]() ![]() ![]() When they arrive in Crete the Athenians are locked in a cell. And if he kills the creature he will signal his success by flying a white sail on the return journey. Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete, with the aim of killing the Minotaur. Theseus - son of King Aegeus - is determined to be one of them. Fourteen young Athenians are being selected for the journey to Crete. Minos determines to demand tribute from the peoples he has conquered in the form of humans - young men and women to be fed to the Minotaur. The only problem is how to feed the creature. But King Minos and his people had a problem - the Minotaur, a creature part-man, part-bull, which rampaged throughout the palace killing those it caught.ĭeadalus creates a labyrinth - a maze - under the palace and the Minotaur is lured inside and can never find its way out again. Hermes tells how Crete was once all-powerful because of the instruments of war created by Deadalus for King Minos. ![]()
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