minotaur

(noun)

A monster with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

Related Terms

  • Linear A
  • labyrinth

Examples of minotaur in the following topics:

  • The Minoans

    • The many rooms of the "palace" at Knossos were so oddly shaped and disordered to Evans that they reminded him of the labyrinth of the Minotaur.
    • According to myth, Minos' wife had an illicit union with a white bull, which lead to the birth of a half bull and half man, known as the Minotaur.
    • King Minos had his court artist and inventor, Daedalus, build an inescapable labyrinth for the Minotaur to live in.
  • Picasso

    • During the 1930s, the minotaur replaced the harlequin as a common motif in his work.
    • His use of the minotaur came partly from his contact with the surrealists, who often used it as their symbol, and it appears in Picasso's Guernica.
    • The minotaur and Picasso's mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter are heavily featured in his celebrated Vollard Suite of etchings.
  • Painting

    • From this union, Pasiphaë birthed the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster.
  • Ceramics in the Greek Archaic Period

    • The other side depicts Theseus, who slayed the Minotaur, with Athenian youths and his wife Ariadne.
  • The Ancient Greek Gods and Their Temples

    • A third hero, Theseus, was an Athenian hero known for slaying King Minos's Minotaur.
  • Painting in the Early Roman Empire

    • From this union, Pasiphaë birthed the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster.
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