Recount the legend of Minos and the Minotaur and explain its significance to the Greeks; then, argue whether a hero like Theseus, with all of his flaws, would be as acceptable in contemporary cultures as he was to the Greeks

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1. King Minos boasted that the gods would grant him anything he wished, so he prayed for a bull that he might sacrifice to the god of the sea, Poseidon. A beautiful white bull did emerge from the sea, but Minos decided to keep it for himself. This angered Poseidon, who took revenge by causing Minos’ queen, Pasiphae, to fall in love with the bull and give birth to the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster. To appease the monster’s appetite for human flesh, Minos ordered the city of Athens to send him 14 young men and women each year. Theseus, son of King Aegeus of Athens, vowed to kill the Minotaur. As he set sail for Crete, he promised his father that he would return under white sails to announce his victory. At Crete, he seduced Ariadne, daughter of Minos, who gave him a sword with which to kill the Minotaur and a spindle of thread to lead himself out of the maze in which the Minotaur lived. Victorious, Theseus sailed home but abandoned Ariadne on the island of Naxos. Sailing into the harbor at Athens, Theseus neglected to raise the white sails, perhaps intentionally. When his father, King Aegeus, saw the ship still sailing under black sails, he threw himself into the sea (henceforth the Aegean), and Theseus became king.
2.The story is a creation or origin myth, like the Zuni emergence tale or the Hebrew story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. Rather than narrating the origin of humankind, however, it tells the story of the birth of Greek culture. It correctly suggests a close link to Crete, but it also emphasizes Greek independence from that powerful island. It tells us, furthermore, much about the emerging Greek character: Theseus, who would, by the fifth century BCE, achieve the status of a national hero, was wily, ambitious, and strong but not idealized or godlike. He is, almost to a fault, completely human.
3. Responses to the final part of the question will vary. Some students might recognize elements of the Theseus myth in The Hunger Games and similar contemporary stories of sacrifice and heroic quest.