2. King Minos

3. A white bull. A gift to King Minos from Poseidon

4. King Minos was supposed to sacrifice the bull, but he did not. Poseidon became very angry.

5. As punishment, Poseidon made King Minos’s wife, Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull.

6. Pasiphae and the bull had a half human, half –bull child called the Minotaur.

7. King Minos was so ashamed, he called on the work of the very cunning builder, Daedalus.

8. He asked Daedauls to build a complex maze, and he put the minotaur in the center of it. Daedalus was such a skilled builder King Minos knew the minotaur would never escape.

9. King Minos NEVER wanted the Minotaur to escape. So he locked Daedalus and his son Icarus in a tower on the island of Crete, and surrounded it by guards so that Daedalus could never tell anyone how to solve the maze.