The Minotaur - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
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This Limestone statue is sculpted by Elford Bradley Cox in 1979
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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.
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