 | Shona Grimbly - 2000 - 260 pàgines
...island. His wife, Pasiphae, fell in love with a magnificent bull and gave birth to the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. King Minos kept the Minotaur in a labyrinth hidden in the depths of his palace. Evans was 5 1... | |
 | 1996 - 454 pàgines
...generally resided. t I lielieve n three-sided house for a three-sided im-ige is meant here. JA domi-gixl with the body of a man and the head of a horse. § The sacred swan. Rooms in which tires are kept for the imrnoso of warming the Ixxly. boiling water.... | |
 | Marcia Lerner - 2002 - 234 pàgines
...faces and the bodies of birds, these creatures were known for being unpleasant. Minotaur: A fierce monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. Naiads: Water nymphs. unicorn Phoenix: A mythical bird that could recreate itself out of its... | |
 | Michael Agnes - 2003 - 771 pàgines
...musical scale with a semitone between the second and third tones Min-O-taur (min'a tor') n. Gr. Myth, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull min-OX-l-dll (min ak'sa dil) n. a drug that dilates blood vessels, used in treating high blood... | |
 | Chris Sasaki - 2003 - 132 pàgines
...Crown helped the great warrior Theseus defeat one of his most fearsome enemies. The Minotaur was a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. It lived in a vast palace called the Labyrinth, a palace with so many rooms and hallways that... | |
 | Dora Apel - 2004 - 284 pàgines
...young nude white woman is flanked by two featureless silhouetted brown men and a threatening black monster with the body of a man and the head of a beast (plate 10). His "grotesquely enlarged head, sprouting horns and bristling fangs," writes Judith... | |
 | 2005 - 148 pàgines
...later he married Phaedra. Theseus accomplished many heroic deeds, including slaying the Minotaur, a monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull. Theseus was eventually killed by Lycomedes, king ot Scyros. Tyndareos: king ot Sparta, husband... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2011 - 356 pàgines
...(shown in picture below) built by Daedalus for King Minos of Crete to house the Minotaur, a flesh-eating monster with the body of a man and the head of a bull (Young men who "wandered" in the labyrinth were usually eaten.) 195. Solicit: allure, incite 196.... | |
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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. 
