The document summarizes the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Every seven years, Athens was forced to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete to be eaten by the Minotaur, a monster with the head of a bull and body of a man. Theseus volunteered to slay the Minotaur, which was confined in Daedalus' inescapable labyrinth. Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of string to help him find his way out. Theseus used the string to track his path and killed the sleeping Minotaur, then followed the string to escape the labyrinth and return victorious to Athens.

2. Legend has it that a long time ago, on the Greek island of Crete there
lived a king named Minos. The king’s wife had a monstrous son , with
the head of a bull and the body of a human. This beast was called the
Minotaur and it terrorized the city of Athens.

3. Every seven years Athens had to send seven
boys and seven girls to the Minotaur so
that it could eat them.
The time came when Theseus, the son of
the king of Athens, Aegeus ,was old
enough to be sent to the Minotaur. He
decided that he would kill the Minotaur.

4. The Minotaur was confined in a labyrinth that had been
built by Daedalus, the king’s best architect. It was so big
and had so many passages and rooms that once you went
inside you would be lost forever and could never find your
way out.

5. Luckily when he arrived in Crete, Theseus met the kings daughter,
Ariadna. She fell in love with him and gave him a ball of string in order
to help him find his way out of the labyrinth.
As Theseus enters the labyrinth he lets the
string unwind behind him.

6. Theseus killed the Minotaur while it was
sleeping. Then all he had to do was follow
the string to escape from the labyrinth.
He returned, victorious
to Athens.

7. Minos was furious so he
trapped Daedalus and his son
Icarus in the labyrinth. In order to
escape Daedalus made wings
from birds feathers, which he
stuck together with wax.
Icarus flew too high and the sun melted the
wax so he fell into the sea and drowned.

8. LABYRINTH
MINOTAUR
WINGS
FEATHER
WAX
S
BULL

9. WAY OUT
BALL OF
STRING
UNWIND
TRAP
MELT
DROWN

10. WAY OUT
BALL OF
STRING
UNWIND
TRAP
MELT
DROWN