Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 Who was the Minotaur?
2:33 How King Minos Used the Minotaur
4:20 How Theseus entered the picture
5:37 Ariadne and Phaedra help Theseus
6:26 The betrayal of Ariadne
6:46 The Death of King Aegeus
7:24 The Cows and Bulls of Greek Mythology
8:43 The Minotaur myth and the Minoan civilisation
10:09 Arthur Evans and the Minoan Culture
11:01 Origins of the Labyrinth
12:22 Theseus and the Persians
13:17 The Minotaur and Atlantis

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