Is Minotaur real or just some magical creature?
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Minotaur was a monster with a human body and a bull’s head or a bull’s body with a human head. The Minotaur is an iconic half-man, half-bull character in Greek mythology. The offspring of King Minos’ wife Pasiphae and a beautiful bull, the beast was beloved by its mother and hidden away by Minos in a labyrinth built by the magician Daedalus, where it fed on young men and women.
A monster with human body and bull’s head, the Minotaur is one of the most evocative of Greek myths, and in modern culture, the story has been told by painters such as Picasso, who illustrated himself as the Minotaur; poets like Ted Hughes, Jorge Luis Borges, Dante; and filmmakers. It is a symbol of unconscious impulses, a creature that can see in the dark but is blinded by natural light, the result of unnatural passions and erotic fantasies.