The Minotaur

Reading notes

• The Art of Love §2.2 half-bull man

  The Minotaur, of bull's head and man's body, shut by Daedalus in the Cretan labyrinth.

• The Heroides §2 form mixed of bull and man

  The Minotaur, the bull-headed monster of the Cretan labyrinth, slain by Theseus.

• The Heroides §4 my brother

  The Minotaur, Phaedra's monstrous half-brother, whose bones Theseus shattered with his club.

• The Heroides §10 my brother

  The Minotaur, Ariadne's monstrous half-brother, slain by Theseus's club in the labyrinth.

• The Heroides §10 the monster

  The Minotaur, the bull-man laid low by Theseus on the Cretan ground.

• The Heroides §10 the bull-and-man

  The Minotaur, of bull's head and human body, whose death Theseus will boast of at Athens.

• Ibis §11 shape of the new monster

  The Minotaur, hidden in the blind Labyrinth from which the sacrificial youths could not return.

• Metamorphoses §8.196 two-formed monster

  The Minotaur, the bull-headed offspring of Pasiphae and the Cretan bull.