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 ...

According to the historian Apollodorus, Theseus “killed [the Minotaur] by smiting him with his fists; and drawing the clue after him made his way out again.” Though Theseus would become a ...

He’s similarly nonplussed at Sounion, a few miles outside Athens, and site of Aegeus’s suicide when his son Theseus returned from slaying the minotaur ... who wanted to kill him (we’ve ...