Minotaur

I chose this topic because I was interested in it when I was in middle school.

It all started when King Minos asked Poseidon to help him. Poseidon agreed to so he gave King Minos a bull and told him to sacrifice it. King Minos thought the bull was beautiful so he decided to kill one of his own bulls to replace the one given to him. Poseidon was enraged so with the help of Aphrodite he made the queen, Pasiphae fall in love with the bull. At first the bull wanted nothing to do with the queen so she asked Daedalus to make her a costume that would make her look like a cow. When that was done the bull noticed her. Sooner or later Pasiphae had a baby. Half man half bull. Being an inhuman creature he ate human flesh. So then King Minos went to the oracle of Delphi and asked for advice, she told him to build a maze for the bull so that it may never come out. King Minos asked Daedalus to build the maze. Later on King Minos’ son participated in the games with the Athen’s, he was killed accidently. As a form of revenge King Minos had 14 men from Athen to sacrifice themselves to the Minotaur annualy. One day, a man named Theseus volunteered to kill the Minotaur. King Minos’ daughter, Ariadne fell in love with Theseus and gave him a sword and a ball of thread. She told him to tie the thread around him and leave a trail, when he killed the bull he followed the thread to the exit of the maze.