... story of Theseus, who, sailing from Athens to Crete, slew the Minotaur in the great adventure of the Labyrinth. In view of his mastery over the intricacies ...
1926 - American Medical Association | Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
... with Theseus when he arrived on the island of Crete. She gave him the clue which enabled Theseus, after killing the Minotaur, to exit the Labyrinth. The historian uses the accounts of Pherecydes ( fl. c. 550 B.C.), Demon (fl. ...
Tópico(s): Joseph Conrad and Literature
1996 - Johns Hopkins University Press | The American Journal of Philology
... Poseidon, had his chief architect, Daedalus, build the labyrinth under the royal palace at Knossos. Every year a dozen young men and women were sacrificed to the Minotaur, whose subterranean bellowing could be heard like an earthquake throughout the island of Crete. Prince Theseus volunteered for the sacrificial contingent from ...
Tópico(s): Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
1987 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Curriculum Studies
... LIVING MOON-BULL, the classical myth of the Minotaur and the labyrinth of Crete is reborn with its every retelling, reception, and ... by Daedalus. She has a son, nicknamed the Minotaur, with the upper body of a bull and the lower body of a man. Minos keeps his wife's son from the bull hidden and locked up in an underground labyrinth yet again built by Daedalus. After a while a war breaks out between Crete and Athens, which the latter loses. As a ... answers must be Daedalus and the labyrinth of Crete. After all, he built the labyrinth. He was put into it by Minos a punishment for helping Ariadne and Theseus. Nonetheless, it is eventually hinted that the labyrinth that the dwarf mentions actually refers to the helmet of horror. Asterisk, who happens to be the Minotaur and Theseus at the same time, built the ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2016 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... s red thread as his guide in the labyrinth of Crete after slaying the Minotaur, in this issue of The Journal of Physiology Rajguru et al. (2011) have used a red thread of light from an infrared laser travelling down an optical fibre to guide us to a stunningly bright insight into intracellular events in the vestibular labyrinth of the inner ear. Up to now vestibular ...
Tópico(s): Connexins and lens biology
2011 - Wiley | The Journal of Physiology
... 97. In the story of Theseus and the minotaur, Theseus is given a clew, or a ball of string, by the princess Ariadne of Crete when entering the labyrinth as means to escape upon completion of his mission. Without the string, even though he may have accomplished his aim of slaying the minotaur, he would have been lost in the labyrinth ...
Tópico(s): Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
2021 - Elsevier BV | JTCVS Open
... contain and conceal Minos’s illegitimate son, the Minotaur.3 The king continued to keep Daedalus prisoner on the island of Crete so that he would not reveal the labyrinth’s secret. Ultimately, though, the inventor attempted a ...
Tópico(s): American Literature and Culture
2022 - University of Nebraska Press | Western American literature
... absconditus of Jansenism. Her father was King of Crete and later judge in Hades. She married Theseus, King of Athens, who brought her back to Greece after slaying the Minotaur in the Cretan labyrinth. Aphrodite, as she is wont, inflamed Pasiphaë with ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2004 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Theory & Event
... to Theseus’s debt to Ariadne, the princess of Crete who instructed the Athenian hero on how to kill the Minotaur and escape from the labyrinth. Yet, as Dante likely read in Ovid’s adaptations of this myth, it is Theseus’s lack of ...
Tópico(s): Medieval Literature and History
2023 - Johns Hopkins University Press | MLN
... symbol of royal power, the notion of the labyrinth primarily evokes the Minoan Palace in Crete and the myth of the Minotaur. According to this myth, the Minotaur, a monster ...
Tópico(s): Architecture and Computational Design
2007 - Queensland University of Technology | M/C Journal
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... craftsman and architect Daedalus. Confined by King Midas of Crete into the labyrinth that he once had built to imprison the Minotaur, Daedalus imagined an original way to escape from ...
2015 - Springer Nature | SpringerBriefs in space development
... according to legend, was constructed for King Minos of Crete (after the design by Daedalus) to hold the Minotaur (1), a creature half-man, half-bull. Classical labyrinth (a) and clinical (b) and histological labyrinth (c) in hidradenitis suppurativa. Ranging from ...
Tópico(s): Oral Health Pathology and Treatment
2008 - Wiley | Experimental Dermatology
... she's annually forced to play the Keeper of the Maze during The Labyrinth Contest, in which fourteen young Athenians attempt to slay Crete's infamous Minotaur. Somehow, Ariadne has caught the attention of one of this year's warriors, Theseus, and ...
Tópico(s): Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
2019 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... is understood generically in terms of the Ovidian labyrinth, which was created by the Athenian master craftsman Daedalus for King Minos of Crete to conceal the monstrous minotaur conceived in his absence by his adulterous queen, ...
Tópico(s): Historical and Literary Studies
2006 - University of Pennsylvania Press | Huntington Library Quarterly
... Ariane tells the story of the two daughters of the Cretan king, Minos, and their shared love for the young Thésée, sent to Crete as a sacrificial victim for the Minotaur. Helped by Ariane to exit from the labyrinth after putting the creature to death, Thésée is then forced to take flight before Minos's wrath, and Ariane, in love with Thésée and in danger of severe punishment by her father, flees with the ...
Tópico(s): French Literature and Criticism
1998 - Johns Hopkins University Press | L'esprit créateur/L'Esprit créateur
... the labyrinth? Think back to your mythology. The labyrinth was a maze-like prison commissioned by King Minos of Crete to hold his wife's offspring, the half-man/half-bull monster called the Minotaur. The Minotaur had a terrible appetite for human ...
Tópico(s): Homelessness and Social Issues
2006 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | Emergency Medicine News
... had depicted events from his own experiences on Crete, including (most importantly for this paper) the passion of Queen Pasiphae for the bull of Minos, the monstrous hybrid offspring of that union (the Minotaur), and the intricate Labyrinth (inextricabi/is error, 6.27) in which the ...
Tópico(s): Biblical Studies and Interpretation
2014 - | Akroterion
For at least three millennia, if not more, the western has been intrigued by the legendary King Minos of Crete; his family--a wife, two daughters, and the wife's unusual son; two sons-in-law, one mortal and one divine; the king's architect; and the mysterioNote: Table creeusly labyrinthine nature of building that the king ordered his architect to design. Ovid, Virgil, and Jean Racine are only three of the writers who before the twentieth century established either the entire story or sequences detachable ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2007 - | Journal of the fantastic in the arts
... recounts how Ariadne helped Theseus escape from the labyrinth by betraying her father, thus causing the death of her Minotaur half-brother (71–123). Ariadne's ensuing complaint ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
2017 - Texas Tech University Press | Helios
... with it. From this bestial union comes the Minotaur, the being, half-man half-bull, which is shut up in the labyrinth. Minos's nonperformance of the sacrifice therefore causes ...
Tópico(s): Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
1997 - Michigan State University Press | Contagion Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture