CLAS 2520 Lecture 10: Argive Saga, Theseus (Slides w/ Extra Lecture Notes)

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2520
• Professor: Rob Nau

Document Summary

The king of crete died without declaring an heir to the throne. He then prayed to poseidon for a bull to be sent from the sea: poseidon sent a magnificent white bull and minos was declared king. But what was given by the gods was sacred to the gods, and minos should have sacrificed the bull in honor of poseidon. It was so fine, though, he wanted it for his herds. Everything we(cid:374)t a(cid:272)(cid:272)ordi(cid:374)g to pla(cid:374), (cid:271)ut (cid:374)i(cid:374)e (cid:373)o(cid:374)ths later : what could king minos do? he had daedalus build an inescapable maze to house the. Minotaur (cid:894)he did(cid:374)"t wa(cid:374)t to kill it (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of the a(cid:374)ger of the gods for killi(cid:374)g ki(cid:374)(cid:895) Crete at this time was a powerful naval empire and had ties across the mediterranean. Mi(cid:374)os" so(cid:374) a(cid:374)drogeus jour(cid:374)eyed to athe(cid:374)s where he died (two versions: bull that poseidon had sent to minos was unleashed against athens and he attempted to kill it, but was killed instead.