Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete, with the aim of killing the Minotaur. And if he kills the creature he will signal his success by flying a white sail on the return journey.

Do you recall the story of Theseus and the Minotaur? How King Minos of Crete demanded, as tribute from Athens, seven young women and men to be sacrificed to the Minotaur. How Theseus, the son of King ...

In today's episode, she speaks with NPR's Lynn Neary about drawing inspiration from the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the movie Spartacus, reality television and war coverage. To listen to ...

half-bull Minotaur before sailing back to rule Athens. The wooden ship that Theseus sailed on, Plutarch imagined, must have become a national treasure, and he posed a thought experiment that has ...