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10 March 2025

Theseus Maze – In the Labyrinth

Theseus was the Athenian hero who volunteered to be one of the victims of the Minotaur. An Ionian founder-hero (in

Perseus is a major hero from Greek mythology best known for his clever decapitation of Medusa, whose head turned people

Stories about the gods, called myths, were made up thousands of years ago. Was there a real Hercules, a man

God of wine, fruitfulness, parties, festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, vegetation, and ecstasy. In art he is depicted as either an

Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, and handicrafts. According to most traditions, she was born from

God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. He is the son of Zeus

Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. In Hesiod’s Theogony (188–206), she was born from sea-foam and Uranus’s severed genitals;

King of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and

In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in