Theseus
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Theseus was the mythical king of Athens, a divine hero famous for slaying the Minotaur, a half man, half bull, with a voracious appetite for human flesh. King Minos, on Crete, kept the Minotaur in a dungeon-like labyrinth and had Athenian boys taken and put into the labyrinth, where they would become lost and then be attacked and eaten by the Minotaur. Theseus joined one of these groups, hiding a ball of string and a sword. Unraveling the string as he went through the labyrinth to find his way back out, Theseus found the Minotaur sleeping and, after a ferocious battle, killed it. He then left the labyrinth with the other intended victims.
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