CLAS 1100 Final: Greek Final
Document Summary
Recount the main story that links the mythology of crete with that of. Daedalus is an athenian that works at the court of the king of crete, minos. He builds a cow suite for king"s wife, pasiphae, so that she can fulfill her desires with the bull. Androgeus goes to athens and wins competitions and is mysteriously found dead. Athens sending a group of athenians to crete every nine years to feed to the. Theseus, the prince of athens, finally decides to stop this by sailing to. Bulls were considered sacred in the mythology of crete. We know this from frescos found in crete of bull leaping. This could have risen from the idolization of the golden calf in the bible. An example of this in mythology is when zeus seduces europa by showing up in the form of a bull.
