Dragons & Fantasy

MINOTAUR

Half bull and half man, the Minotaur was a savage, carnivorous monster born of King Minos’s wife and a bull that Minos stole from the sea god Poseidon. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Minos’s wife fall in love with the bull, which resulted in the birth of the Minotaur. The monster caused so much destruction on the island of Crete that Minos had the architect Daedalus build an elaborate labyrinth to contain the beast, who was ultimately slain by the Greek hero Theseus. In contemporary fiction and games, minotaurs are usually cast as villains, but they are also considered very intelligent and sometimes play the role of the hero.

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