Theseus and the Minotaur

Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend · Greek · Ancient

Athens is made to send young men and women to Crete as tribute, to be fed to the Minotaur kept in Daedalus's labyrinth. Theseus, son of the Athenian king, volunteers among them, and the Cretan princess Ariadne gives him a ball of thread. Into the maze with a thread; the labyrinth as every difficult interior.

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Lineage

shares sources with ↑ Daedalus and Icarus
Greek myth · c. 600 BCE · Myth / Legend
↓ Metamorphoses
Ovid · 8 CE · Poem — retells this
↓ Phèdre
Jean Racine · 1677 CE · Play — alludes to this
↓ The Shining
Stanley Kubrick · 1980 CE · Film — alludes to this

Attributes

Closest analogues

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