According to Greek legend, Athens founder and king, Theseus, found himself in a labyrinth where he was to do battle with the ...

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 ...

On the Isle of Naxos, Ariadne guards the labyrinth where her half-brother the Minotaur was interned. Half beast half man, the Minotaur was born after a curse incited Pasiphaë to sleep with a bull.

Was the legend of the Minotaur inspired by the worship of bulls ... While excavating this site, Sir Arthur Evans lived at the nearby Villa Ariadne. At one point during World War II, this villa ...

At an academic lecture hosted by your friend, a hooded man refutes the accepted lore, announcing that the Minotaur is still alive and well in his labyrinth, waiting patiently to be reborn. Only the ...

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with events in our modern world. The latest such project is a pithy double bill of ...