Mythological Monsters and Beasts
Minotaur & the Labyrinth King Minos’ wife had sex with a bull and conceived the Minotaur. King Minos talked his chief engineer into building a maze from which no man could escape. The Minotaur was placed in the labyrinth and seven boys and seven virginal girls from Athens would be sent in as a tribute (shades of Hunger Games!). Theseus of Athens volunteered as one of the sacrificial boys. Luckily Ariadne, one of Minos’ daughters, fell in love with Theseus and gives him a spool of thread and a sword. He attached the thread at the opening of the labyrinth and after killing the Minotaur, follows the thread out to freedom. Theseus goes home and becomes King of Athens.
Maenads Female followers of Dionysis known for wild, drunken, wanton behavior
Satyrs
Centaurs
Phoenix & Sphinx
Medusa & the Gorgons
Sirens
Circe
Scylla & Charybdis (silla & ka-rib-dis)