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Cretan Bull
Heracles capturing the Cretan Bull. Detail of a Roman mosaic from Llíria (Spain).
Grouping
Legendary creature
Country
Greece
Region
Crete
In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull (Ancient Greek: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur.
In Greek mythology, the CretanBull (Ancient Greek: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the...
stables in a single day Slaying the Stymphalian birds Capturing the CretanBull Stealing the Mares of Diomedes Obtaining the girdle of Hippolyta, queen...
1940 – issue 591 "The Stymphalean Birds": April 1940 – issue 592 "The CretanBull": May 1940 – issue 593 "The Horses of Diomedes": June 1940 – issue 594...
jackals, and venomous snakes, to the labour of Hercules (who took a live Cretanbull to the Peloponnese). Hercules wanted to honor the birthplace of Zeus...
is slaughtered as a bull calf and impiously eaten by the Titans. For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the CretanBull: Theseus of Athens had...
at the Panathenaic Games; in others he was killed at Marathon by the CretanBull, his mother's former taurine lover, because Aegeus, king of Athens, had...
offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos' wife Pasiphaë with the CretanBull that the king refused to surrender to Poseidon) which he had placed within...
human struggles, seeing the Erymanthian boar, the Nemean lion and the Cretanbull as symbols of passion, the Cerynean deer as cowardice, the cleaning of...
Due to a curse from Aphrodite, she fell in love with the CretanBull. Her union with the bull produced the Minotaur. Pelias: son of Poseidon and Tyro and...
also wanted to sacrifice the CretanBull to Hera. She refused the sacrifice because it reflected glory on Heracles. The bull was released and wandered to...
Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretanbull. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth...
"The Use of the Caduceus in the Insignia of the Army Medical Officer", in Bull. Med. Lib. Assoc. IX (1919-20), 13-16 Friedlander, Walter J (1992). The Golden...
Palace of Minos: a comparative account of the successive stages of the early Cretan civilization as illustrated by the discoveries at Knossos. Vol. 4. p. 827...
In Ancient Crete, tradition told of Talos, a giant man of bronze. When Cretan mythology was appropriated by the Greeks, they imagined him more like the...
Ukraine, unknown architect, 1950s Modernist relief of Europe, forcing the wild bull on its knees and pouring out the cornucopia with the blessings of prosperity...
"The Stymphalean Birds" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The CretanBull" (short story from The Labours of Hercules) "The Horses of Diomedes"...
creutzburgi), the Cretan otter (Lutrogale (Isolalutra) cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene...
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