In traditional Greek mythology, when King Minos of Crete failed to sacrifice a bull to
Poseidon, the god caused his wife to lust after the animal. By it, she conceived the Minotaur,
a monster with a bull’s head and a man’s body, which was confined in a labyrinth.
There, it devoured human beings, until it was killed by Theseus.


Andrew Shalit tells a different story.