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Mythological Monsters and Beasts
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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.
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Maenads Female followers of Dionysis known for wild, drunken, wanton behavior
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Satyrs
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Centaurs
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Phoenix & Sphinx
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Medusa & the Gorgons
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Sirens
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Circe
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Scylla & Charybdis (silla & ka-rib-dis)
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