 | 1830 - 436 pages
...sculptor since its revival in Italy." In this group the Minotaur is represented, according to sume of the traditions, with the body of a man and the...lifeless carcass of the fallen monster is carelessly tbrown over a rock, which thus furnishes a natural pedestal to the group. The young conqueror is seated... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Mythology, Classical - 1853 - 200 pages
...— 1, " Minotaurum ;" Greek MMWJ, a king of Crete, and tavpof, a bull; the Minotaur was a monster, with the body of a man and the head of a bull, the offspring of Pasiphae, wife of Minos ; the Minotaur was shut up in a labyrinth, and fed on human flesh;... | |
 | John Bonner - 1857 - 328 pages
...and as many tall youths, to be eaten by the monster called the MINOTAUR, which was a hideous brute with the body of a man and the head of a bull, and lived in a labyrinth in Crete, and fed on human beings. To pay this cruel tribute, the Athenians... | |
 | Pausanias - Greece - 1898 - 622 pages
...grasps the monster's right horn with his left hand. On all three coins the Minotaur is represented with the body of a man and the head of a bull. See Imhoof-Blumer and Gardner, Numismatic Commentary on Pausanias, p. 146, with pi. DD, iii. iv. vi.... | |
 | Gordon Jennings Laing - English literature - 1903 - 534 pages
...years seven boys and seven girls to Crete, to be devoured by the Minotaur. 2 Wife of Minos. 8 A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. * The Minotaur was kept in the labyrinth built by Daedalus. 6 Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who fell in love... | |
 | Gordon Jennings Laing - English literature - 1903 - 528 pages
...years seven boys and seven girls to Crete, to be devoured by the Minotaur. 2 Wife of Minos. 8 A monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. 4 The Minotaur was kept in the labyrinth built by Daedalus. 6 Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who fell... | |
 | Eva March Tappan - Greece - 1908 - 288 pages
...seven fair maidens to Crete (see map, p. 172) to be devoured by the Min'o-taur, a horrible creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. At last, Theseus, the king's son, insisted upon being one of the seven youths ; and he left Athens... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1910 - 296 pages
...him.—labyrinth (l&b'I-rfnth): a place full of winding passageways.— Minotaur (min'6-tar): a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR At last they came to Crete, and to the palace of Minos the great king,... | |
 | Joel Cook - Mediterranean Region - 1910 - 786 pages
...sacrificed another bull, which made Neptune wroth. Neptune therefore sent the Minotaur to Crete, a creature with the body of a man and the head of a bull. Minos acquired much power by sea, conquering all the ^Egean islands, and made war upon Athens, compelling... | |
 | Clarence Franklin Carroll, Sarah Catherine Brooks - Readers - 1911 - 424 pages
...him.—labyrinth (ISb'I-rlnth): a place full of winding passageways.— Minotanr (mm'6-tar): a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. HOW THESEUS SLEW THE MINOTAUR At last they came to Crete, and to the palace of Minos the great king,... | |
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Greek mythology, a. monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. 
