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S2E1 - Theseus and the Minotaur

Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids

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The Panathenaic Games

The ancient greeks used dramatic irony as a plot device in their plays. King minos demanded revenge for the death of his son, and threatened to go to war with athens. So he told the king of athens that if he would send seven boys and seven girls to crete every year for him to feed to the creature, then he would not attack the city of athens. For three long years, the athenians sent seven boys andSeven girls to the island of crete where they would be set loose in the maze with the minitar. It was nearly impossible not to get lost in there, so the minitar would always find them somewhere deep in the labyrinth

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