Minotaur
c. 1400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Knossos, Crete
- Greek
Bull-headed man kept at the centre of a labyrinth and fed on Athenian children. Almost certainly a memory of Minoan bull-leaping seen through later Greek hostility.
Known for
- the labyrinth
- bull and man
- the thread of Ariadne
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.