Later that evening Ariadne - the daughter of King Minos - arrives in secret with a plan to help Theseus: she gives him a sword to kill the Minotaur and a ball of thread the find his way out of the ...

Many myths and legends of Crete center around King Minos, son of the god Zeus and the Phoenician princess Europa. The thunder god had turned himself into a gentle, white bull. Charmed by the ...