Characters
The slayer of the Minotaur
Theseus
This god rescued and married the elder princess when she was stranded by our hero
Dionysus
The island the Labyrinth is located
Crete
The symbol of the Minoans
The bull
The zodiac of the bull
Taurus
The princess that gave our hero the thread that helped him navigate the Labyrinth
Ariadne
This demigod saved our hero from his captivity in the underworld
Heracles
The city the sacrifices for the Minotaur come from
Athens
The real life palace the Labyrinth is based on
Knossos
The name of the Minotaur
Asterion
The architect of the Labyrinth
Daedalus
Our hero's cause of death
Thrown off a cliff
The island where the elder princess was abandoned
Naxos
The book the legend of the Minotaur comes from
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The son of the Labyrinth's architect
Icarus
The mother of the Minotaur
Pasiphaë
King Minos' fate after he was boiled alive
Became a judge of the dead in the Underworld
The body of water named after our hero's father
Aegean Sea
The taboo practice the Minoans possibly participated in during human sacrifice
Cannibalism
Theseus' ship
The younger princess that our hero married
Phaedra
The invention used by the Labyrinth's architect to escape his imprisonment in the Labyrinth
Wings
The place the Cretan Bull ended up after the Minotaur was born
Marathon
The century the height of Minoan civilization took place
16th century BC
This rebuked lover of Jason, the leader of the Argonauts, became the wife of Theseus’ father
Medea