This 1861 illustration of the Minotaur created by English artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones became a meme on Twitter this week.

To paraphrase one of the characters in playwright Anna Ziegler’s “The Minotaur,” so many ancient myths have been retold so often that sometimes, the o ...

The place the Minotaur had in their imagination requires a deeper understanding of Crete’s distant past. Crete started to become a trading power in the Mediterranean around 3000 B.C.