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 ...
This directly recalls the myth of the Minotaur’s ... depths year after year. Theseus, a hero determined to end the cycle, ...
Each mound in turn triggers a memory – the dead Minotaur (slaughtered by her husband Theseus ... in a nod to Romeo’s leave-taking of Juliet, and then in Ariadne’s lament when Theseus has abandoned her ...
Myths include King Midas, Perseus, Medusa, Persephone and Hades, The Minotaur, Theseus and Odysseus. There is a new Resource Pack available which is full of activity suggestions that can be ...