History Recap / TheMetamorphosesMinotaur

He has the body of a man and the head of a bull, and is called the Minotaur (aka. Prince Asterion). King Minos is ashamed of the strange child, but doesn't want to kill it, lest it make the gods angrier. Instead, He has the celebrated architect [[Recap/TheMetamorphosesDaedalusAndIcarus Daedalus]] build an impossible [[TheMaze Labyrinth]] and seals the Minotaur within.\\\
Every nine years, King Minos forces the Athenians to offer seven young men and seven young women to [[FedToTheBeast be sent into the Labyrinth]]. On the third occasion Theseus, son of King Aegeus of Athens, arrives to end the killing of his people. He [[KingIncognito disguises himself as a peasant]] and volunteers to sent into the maze.\\
He meets Ariadne, Minos' daughter, and she falls in love with him. She gives him a thread, and tells him to unravel it as he walks through the maze. To return, all he has to do is rewind the thread.\\

Ariadne's story ends happily, as the god Bacchus comes to comfort the crying girl on the shore. To console her he takes her crown and places it in the sky, where it becomes the Corona Borealis.\\
Theseus on the other hand, forgets to fly the white sails on his ship (which would indicate to his waiting father that he was alive). His father, distraught, [[SuicideBySea commits suicide]].\\\

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Both Theseus and Ariadne- Theseus is making an active, brave attempt to help his subjects and Ariadne helps him, despite her father's wishes.

The Minotaur is the TropeMaker for ALoadOfBull.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Both Theseus and Ariadne- Theseus is making an active, brave attempt to help his subjects and Ariadne helps him, despite her father’s wishes.

* TrailOfBreadCrumbs: The thread that got Theseus out of the Labyrinth.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: The moment Theseus emerges from the maze, takes Ariadne, and leaves.

We start with Pasiphae, as she makes the same dumb mistake that so many make in ClassicalMythology. She [[BlasphemousBoast compares her beauty]] to that of the goddess Aphrodite, who, in retribution, makes Pasiphae [[RevengeThroughCorruption fall in love with her husband’s prized bull]]. Pasiphae constructs a wooden frame in the shape of a female cow so that she can seduce and have sex [[InterspeciesRomance with the bull]]. She becomes pregnant with and gives birth to a HalfHumanHybrid.\\

He meets Ariadne, Minos’ daughter, and she falls in love with him easily. She gives him a thread, and tells him to unravel it as he walks through the maze. To return, all he has to do is rewind the thread.\\

He has the body of a man and the head of a bull, and is called the Minotaur (aka. Prince Asterion). King Minos is ashamed of the strange child, but doesn’t want to kill it, lest it make the gods angrier. Instead, He has the celebrated architect [[Recap/TheMetamorphosesDaedalusandIcarus Daedalus]] build an impossible [[TheMaze Labyrinth]] and seals the Minotaur within.\\\

We start with Pasiphae, as she makes the same dumb mistake that so many make in ClassicalMythology. She [[BlasphemousBoast compares her beauty]] to that of the goddess Aphrodite, who, in retribution, makes Pasiphae [[RevengeThroughCorruption fall in love with her husband’s prized bull]]. Pasiphae constructs a wooden frame in the shape of a female cow so that she can seduce and have [[InterspeciesRomance sex with the bull]]. She becomes pregnant with and gives birth to a HalfHumanHybrid.\\

Every nine years, King Minos forces the Athenians to offer seven young men and seven young women to [[FedToTheBeast be sent into the Labyrinth]]. On the third occasion Theseus, son of King Aegeus of Athens, arrives to end the killing of his people. He [[KingIncognito disguises himself as a peasant]] and volunteers to be one of the youths sent into the maze. He meets Ariadne, Minos’ daughter, and she falls in love with him easily. She gives him a thread, and tells him to unravel it as he walks through the maze. To return, all he hast to do is rewind the thread.\\