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 ...
the Minotaur was born after a curse incited Pasiphaë to sleep with a bull. Theseus, later Phaedra’s husband (and, lest we forget, the father of Hippolytus), is sent to kill the beast.