The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.

Suzanne Collins has only done about dozen press interviews about "The Hunger Games." As "Sunrise on the Reaping" releases, we revisit our 2009 chat.

She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic tribe that had brutally killed her husband ... he ultimately met his own end the same way when Theseus, the mythological hero who slew the Cretan ...

She also was familiar with the myth of the Theseus and the Minotaur, in which Athens was ... be devoured until Theseus volunteered to go and kill the monster. In Collins' series, the country ...

Collins drew inspiration for her bestselling dystopian series from the Greek myth of “Theseus and the Minotaur ... seven children be sent as tributes to the Minotaur’s cave—where they are ultimately ...

The monster was placed inside a labyrinth of Daedalus’s design and fed a tribute of Athenian youths once every nine years until, finally, Theseus arrived and killed it ... the myth of the Minotaur, ...

Family and friends described a teenager killed in a Wednesday morning crash that left two others seriously injured and closed one of the main traffic arteries in Lee County as a strong young woman.