 | William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 678 pàgines
...the skilled craftsman Daidalos; but her sin became known when she brought into the world a hideous monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull — the Minotaur.1 Advised by an oracle, Minos shut the creature in the labyrinth which Daidalos... | |
 | Frank Homer Curtiss - 1919 - 388 pàgines
...serve the living God." 1 The sacrifice of our powers to the world is also symbolized by the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, confined within the labyrinth of physical conditions and devouring our most beautiful ideals... | |
 | James Alexander M'Clymont - 1924 - 322 pàgines
...successful. His most memorable exploit in the eyes of the Athenians was the destruction of the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, which was kept at Knossus, the capital of the Cretan empire of Minos, and to which Athens had... | |
 | Harriette Augusta Curtiss, Frank Homer Curtiss - 1923 - 408 pàgines
...serve the living God." 1 The sacrifice of our powers to the world is also symbolized by the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, confined within the labyrinth of physical conditions and devouring our most beautiful ideals... | |
 | Mark C. Taylor - 1987 - 408 pàgines
...order to fulfill her grotesque desire to copulate with a bull. From their union came the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. King Minos commissioned Daedalus to build a labyrinth in which to hide the monster and thus conceal... | |
 | Giancarlo Maiorino - 1991 - 188 pàgines
...— Richard Lanbam I Since antiquity, the grotesque has been part of art and mythology. As a hybrid monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull, the Minotaur lived in a labyrinth that Daedalus built on the island of Crete. The multitalented... | |
 | William Scheller - 1994 - 160 pàgines
...maze called the Labyrinth, where they would lose their way and be eaten by the horrible Minotaur — a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. The legend tells of a brave young man named Theseus, who traveled from Athens and volunteered... | |
 | Harriette A. Curtiss - 1996 - 400 pàgines
...Crete, demanded every 9th year a toll of 7 youths and 7 maidens who were sacrificed to Minatour, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. This monster was confined in a labyrinth, in whose passages any of the victims who attempted... | |
 | André Bazin - 1997 - 274 pàgines
...gave Theseus the thread by which he found his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. 7. Sartre had written in reference to Faulkner and Dos Passos that every novelistic technique... | |
 | Oscar Wilde - 1998 - 244 pàgines
...labyrinth was said to have been designed by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete, to hide the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. toy-formed: formed of two incongruous parts. 1. 39. scarlet Ibis: sacred bird of ancient Egypt,... | |
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They are a dwarfish kind of monster, with the body of a man and the head of a horse, and are otherwise called Kinnara. 
