Asterius (Minotaur)

Also known as: Minotaur · Role: monster · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.1

Life events

• Pasiphae gave birth to the Minotaur, whom Minos imprisoned in Daedalus's Labyrinth.(Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 Labyrinth)
  • With: Pasiphae Daedalus Minos
  • “And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human; and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.”
• Minos ordered Athens to send seven youths and seven unarmed damsels as fodder for the Minotaur.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Minos
  • “And Minos ordered them to send seven youths and the same number of damsels without weapons to be fodder for the Minotaur.”
• Theseus entered the labyrinth and killed the Minotaur with his fists.(Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 labyrinth)
  • With: Theseus
  • “And having found the Minotaur in the last part of the labyrinth, he killed him by smiting him with his fists;”

Apollodorus, Library 3.1

• parent: Pasiphae “And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur.”
• guardian: Minos “and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.”
• with Daedalus (constructed the Minotaur's Labyrinth) “Now the Labyrinth which Daedalus constructed was a chamber “ that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way. ””

Apollodorus, Epitome 1

• enemies with Theseus “he killed him by smiting him with his fists”
• with Theseus (Theseus killed the Minotaur.) “he killed him by smiting him with his fists”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.