CLAS 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Knossos, Boeotia
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Bull vaulting: athletics were in observance of religious practices: bull leaping painting found inside palace. Zeus seduces europa by showing up in the form as a bull. Q: which of the following was the child of europa and zeus. Makes pasiphae fall in love with bull. Hybrid man and bull: minotaur: only eats human flesh. Offers to betray father (nisus) to win over dashing warrior king. Cut off purple lock of hair, which makes lose power over kingdom. Minos accepts her help but rejects scylla for portraying her father. In the end, both are turned into birds. Brings down temple on own head to kill as many as possible. Sired by father and made way up to athens. Offers to go along to kill minotaur. Challenged to prove poseidon is his father (1/2 son: dove to bottom to sea to receive ring.
