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Facts about The Minotaur and the Labyrinth
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Ancient Greek author Apollodorus records that Minos named the half-bull creature the Minotaur, meaning 'Bull of Minos,' with its personal name being Asterion.
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Athens was required to send a tribute of seven young men and seven maidens to Crete periodically, to be fed to the Minotaur within the Labyrinth.
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The Minotaur, offspring of Queen Pasiphae and a bull sent by Poseidon, had the body of a man and the head of a bull.
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Theseus, the hero who slew the Minotaur, navigated back out of the Labyrinth by following a thread given to him by Ariadne, daughter of King Minos.
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In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was designed by the craftsman Daedalus at the command of King Minos of Crete to imprison the Minotaur.