07 italy cretan bull-SFTLOH Travel Guide
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4 ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules 2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990 Minos wanted to keep the bull for himself, but after an easy wrestle Hercules caught it and brought it to King Eurysteus, who afterwards set it free. The bull wandered to Hercules’ seventh Labour was to sail to the Mediterranean island of Crete (Κρήτη), capture Minos’s bull and take it back to King Eurystheus. According to some legends, this was the bull Zeus sent to carry King Minos’s mother Europa (Εὐρώπη) on his back to the island of Crete. According to other sources, this was the bull sent to Minos by Poseidon, the Olympian God of the Ocean, to be offered as a sacrifice. When Minos saw the beauty of the animal, he preferred to spare its life and Italy – Capturing the Cretan Bull It was the Athenian hero Theseus who subsequently killed the Cretan bull in Marathon and the Minotaur in
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ERASMUS+ KA2 Searching for the Labours of Hercules2014-1-TR01-KA201-012990
Italy – Capturing the Cretan Bull
Minos wanted to keep the bull for himself, but after an easy wrestle Hercules caught it and brought it to King Eurysteus, who afterwards set it free. The bull wandered to Sparta and from Arcadia to Marathon in Attica, where he harassed the inhabitants.
It was the Athenian hero Theseus who subsequently killed the Cretan bull in Marathon and the Minotaur in Crete.
Hercules’ seventh Labour was to sail to the Mediterranean island of Crete (Κρήτη), capture Minos’s bull and take it back to King Eurystheus.
According to some legends, this was the bull Zeus sent to carry King Minos’s mother Europa (Εὐρώπη) on his back to the island of Crete. According to other sources, this was the bull sent to Minos by Poseidon, the Olympian God of the Ocean, to be offered as a sacrifice. When Minos saw the beauty of the animal, he preferred to spare its life and sacrifice another bull instead. Taking offence, Poseidon made the bull ravage Crete. Minoss’ wife Pasifae fell in love with the animal and gave birth to the Minotaur, the monstrous bull-headed creature imprisoned in the Labyrinth.
