The Minotaur - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member monkeys4ever
N 43° 37.941 W 079° 25.373
17T E 627222 N 4832248
One of the 20 statues at the Garden of the Greek Gods on the Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) grounds in Toronto.
Waymark Code: WM7ZAM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/28/2009
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member wildwoodke
Views: 11

This Limestone statue is sculpted by Elford Bradley Cox in 1979
More information here

The text from the plaque:

THE MINOTAUR

Half bull, half man, he garded the maze for the King of Crete until vanquished by the Greek Prinse Theseus.


Minotaur

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur, as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Ovid, "part man and part bull." He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built for King Minos of Crete and designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus who were ordered to build it to hold the Minotaur. The Minotaur was eventually killed by Theseus, the son of Aegeas.

Minotaur was originally a proper noun in reference to this mythical figure. The use of minotaur as a common noun to refer to members of a generic race of bull-headed creatures developed much later, in 20th-century genre fiction.

Information taken from: visit link
Time Period: Ancient

Epic Type: Mythical

Exhibit Type: Figure, Statue, 3D Art

Approximate Date of Epic Period: Not listed

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