Pasiphae, cursed by Poseidon with desire for the Cretan Bull, conceived the Minotaur through a union made possible by Daedalus's wooden cow. The half-bull creature was imprisoned in the Labyrinth.
Androgeus, son of Minos, was killed in Athens after winning the Panathenaic games — either sent against the Marathonian Bull or murdered by jealous competitors. His death provoked Minos's war on Athens and the tribute to the Minotaur.
Theseus captured the Marathonian Bull that was terrorizing Attica and sacrificed it to Apollo Delphinios. The beast was the same Cretan Bull Heracles had brought to the mainland as his seventh labor.
Poseidon sent the Cretan Bull from the sea as a sign of divine favor for Minos to sacrifice, but Minos kept the magnificent beast for himself.
Eurystheus commanded Heracles to capture the Cretan Bull as his seventh labor. Heracles wrestled the beast into submission and brought it alive to Mycenae, where Eurystheus released it.
Heracles captured the Cretan Bull as his seventh labor, wrestling the fire-breathing beast into submission and bringing it back alive to Eurystheus.
Minos kept Poseidon's Cretan Bull instead of sacrificing it, provoking the god's curse on Pasiphae. The bull later escaped to Marathon, where Heracles captured it as his seventh labour.
Poseidon cursed Pasiphae with an unnatural desire for the Cretan Bull after Minos refused to sacrifice it. With Daedalus's help, she consummated the union, conceiving the Minotaur.
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