Myths Collection

Daedalus, a master craftsman, and his son Icarus were imprisoned in the Labyrinth of Crete by King Minos. To escape the island, Daedalus fashioned wings from feathers and wax, but despite his...

Glaucus, the young son of King Minos of Crete, tragically drowns in a storage jar filled with honey. The seer Polyidus is tasked by the king to find the boy and, eventually, to restore him to...

Glaucus, the young son of King Minos, accidentally drowns in a large pithos of honey while playing in the palace storerooms. Through the wisdom of the seer Polyidus and the observation of a...

After the tragic death of his son Icarus, the master inventor Daedalus fled to Italy, landing on the heights of Cumae. In gratitude for his survival and in mourning for his loss, he dedicated his...

Following his ascent to the throne of Crete, King Minos fails to honor a sacred vow to Poseidon, leading to a divine curse upon his wife, Queen Pasiphae. Cursed with an unnatural passion for a...

The Athenian hero Theseus travels to Crete to end a gruesome tribute where seven young men and seven young women are sacrificed to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster living in a complex...