One of the most intriguing myths of ancient Greece is that of the Minotaur on the island of Crete, the bull-headed human-animal hybrid of Greek mythology. The story of the bestial Minotaur trapped in ...
In Part Three of Why Myths Still Matter, we followed a thread which led us from the healing Labors of Hercules to another Greek hero, Theseus: his slaying of the Minotaur, and the psychospiritual ...
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Phaedra + Minotaur at the Linbury

Half opera, half ballet, this production, combining composer Benjamin Britten’s Phaedra and choreographer Kim Brandstrup’s ...
THE KING MUST DIE (338 pp.)—Mary Renault—Pantheon ($4.50). The best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom ...