King Minos of Crete
Though crowned by deific feat
Thought piety obsolete
So the gods he did ill-treat
With the Earthshaker irate
The gods set a king’s fate
The queen’s lust they did inflate
And with a bull she did mate
Her son, a hideous Taurus
Consuming men, remorseless
So the king hired Daedalus
To hide the monster with little fuss
When came, across the Aegean
This heroic Athenian
He donned his helm, Corinthian
And entered the maze, labyrinthian
Theseus, aided by Ariadne
Left a string, his track to see
Delved below Mycenae
To combat evil’s tyranny
The courage of Theseus held
And the Minotaur was felled
The freedom of Athenians upheld
And they sailed north, wind-propelled
Though, Theseus was not perfect
Ariadne abandoned with disrespect
To a god, she did connect
But that’s a tale of a different transect
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