If I understand correctly, the article says the "maze" was actually the many rooms of the Cretan palace. The word "labyrinth" comes from the sacred ax called "labrys" used to kill the bulls during sacrifice. The minotaur was an invention symbolizing a foreign power that Athens fought with and will overcome?
replyI always considered https://files.blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/397... the true one
replythe Master
replyThe article mentions that Sappho referenced the Athenians sending sacrifices to Crete but I can't find the fragment anywhere and I'm guessing it doesn't exist.
replypartially related..
replythe Minotaur is one of the main "characters" in Physics of Sorrow by Georgi Gospodinov.
https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Sorrow-Georgi-Gospodinov/dp/1...
https://losangelesreview.org/book-review-the-physics-of-sorr...
English version, but paywalled: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/...
reply(can read in FF's "reader mode").
Archive link: https://archive.ph/gsv8r
It seems disabling JavaScript on that page also loads the full content.
replyThe article is in french
replySo we know the minotaur probably didn't speak English.
replyThis appears to be the English version : https://archive.is/gsv8r
replyMy browser has a translate feature. I imagine it's pretty standard.
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