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The Minotaur is the first infernal guardian whom Virgil and Dante encounter within the walls of Dis. The Minotaur seems to represent the entire zone of Violence, much as Geryon represents Fraud in Canto XVI, and serves a similar role as gatekeeper for the entire seventh Circle.
Il Minotauro è una figura della mitologia greca. Figlio del Toro di Creta e di Pasifae, regina di Creta, era un essere mostruoso e feroce, con il corpo di un uomo e la testa di un toro che nacque per volere di Poseidone, il dio del mare, che intendeva punire il re di Creta, Minosse. Atene, sconfitta da Minosse, fu costretta a pagare ...
21 giu 2024 · Minotaur, in Greek mythology, a fabulous monster of Crete that had the body of a man and the head of a bull. It was the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a snow-white bull sent to Minos by the god Poseidon for sacrifice.
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22 nov 2018 · Una delle storie più conosciute della mitologia greca è quella del Minotauro, un mostro metà uomo e metà toro. Di seguito ripercorriamo la storia di questa figura, dalla nascita fino alla sua ...
The Minotaur – named Asterius at birth (after his grandfather) – was the anomalous offspring of this unnatural union. Who were Zeus’ Lovers? How was the World created?
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21 mag 2023 · The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull. The Minotaur was hidden from the world in the Labyrinth, a giant maze, where it was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus.
1 set 2013 · The Minotaur was the offspring of the Cretan Queen Pasiphae and a majestic bull. Due to the Minotaur's monstrous form, King Minos ordered the craftsman, Daedalus , and his son, Icarus, to build a huge maze known as the Labyrinth to house the beast.
