CLAS 430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Aegeus
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Europa was a princess of phoenecia who was on the beach one day. Zeus disguised as a bull and got her to ride on him. He rode away to a different island called crete. Zeus transformed back and had kids with on the island. Minos was suppose to sacrifice the bull but he used it to breed. Poseidon got mad and punished minos and made his wife pasephae fall in love with the bull. Pasephae wanted to sleep w/ the bull. Daedalus, an athenian immigrant was an inventor: he invited a prosthetic cow for pasephae to hide inside to sleep w/ the bull. She gave birth to the minotaur a half man half bull. Minors shut the minotaur up in a prison, called the labyrinth, which is a maze built by. King of athens got annoyed by how good he was. Sent him to kill a bull and got killed.
