Theseus took Ariadne away from Crete but then forsake his promise to marry her by abandoning her as she sleeps on the beach of the island of Naxos. He found the minotaur deep in the recesses of the labyrinth, killed it with his sword, and followed the thread back to the entrance. Ariadne gave him a ball of red thread, and Theseus unrolled it as he penetrated the labyrinth, which allowed him to find his way back out. She offered to help him conquer the labyrinth and kill the minotaur if he would marry her and take her away from Crete. He traveled to Crete, and as soon as he arrived Ariadne, King Minos’ daughter, fell in love with him. Theseus volunteered to join the band of youths who were to be sacrificed. Theseus’ story is a long and complex one, and he is one of the great heroes of Greek myth, so we’ll only be looking at the portion of his story that involves the labyrinth. Theseus was the son of King Aegeus of Athens.
Minos had recently conquered Athens, and he demanded as a tribute that every year Athens would send seven maidens and seven youths to be sacrificed to the minotaur. It was famous for being unnavigable once in, anyone who entered was doomed to be eaten by the Minotaur. Minos instructed the great architect and engineer Daedalus to build the labyrinth to house the Minotaur. Out of this union, the Minotaur was born. Poseidon was angry when Minos broke his promise, so he punished him by making his queen, Pasiphae, fall in love with the bull. Minos had promised to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon but broke his promise when he saw how beautiful the bull was, and sacrificed a lesser animal instead. The story of the minotaur starts with Minos, who became king of Crete when Poseidon sent a great white bull out of the ocean as a sign Minos should rule.
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