1. Theseus and the Minotaur Powerpoint By Philipp Gaissert

2. Minotaur: The Birth of a Monster
King Minos tried to trick Poseidon into taking an alternate sacrifice than his favorite bull.
Poseidon cursed King Minos’ wife, Queen Pasiphae to fall in love with the bull.
Daedalus built wooden cow for Pasiphae to have her needs satisfied
Pasiphae gives birth to Minotaur, half bull, half man

3. The Sacrifice
King Minos ordered for the monster to be trapped in a labyrinth constructed by Daedalus.
Every year, 7 men and 7 women were led into the labyrinth and fed to the Minotaur
I’m hungry!

4. Theseus
Son of Aegeus, King of Athens and Aethra, daughter of the king of Troezen.
Defeated Periphetes, son of Hephaestus, and Procrustes, the Stretcher
Sailed to Crete to stop the horrible sacrifice to the Minotaur.
Promised his father to sail back with white sails if he had succeeded and lived.
Athens
Crete

5. At Crete Theseus offered himself to the group of the sacrifice
Ariadne, daughter of Minos, gave Theseus a sword to slay the Minotaur, and a ball of golden thread, with which to find his way back
Theseus kills the Minotaur in the labyrinth, frees the offered youths, and escapes the island.
On the way home, Theseus leaves Ariadne on Naxos, lying that Athena had said to do so
When returning home, Theseus forgets to change the sail to white.
Seeing the black sail, King Aegeus commits suicide, thinking that his son Theseus had perished

6. Getting Through the Labyrinth

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