Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete, with the aim of killing the Minotaur. And if he kills the creature he will signal his success by flying a white sail on the return journey.

How did ancient Greek hero Theseus unite all of Attica under the rule of Athens, and what was it like before he did?

According to Greek legend, Athens founder and king, Theseus, found himself in a labyrinth where he was to do battle with the ...

He’s similarly nonplussed at Sounion, a few miles outside Athens, and site of Aegeus’s suicide when his son Theseus returned from slaying the minotaur but forgot to hoist the white sails that ...

Myths include King Midas, Perseus, Medusa, Persephone and Hades, The Minotaur, Theseus and Odysseus. There is a new Resource Pack available which is full of activity suggestions that can be ...

Can the myth of the Labyrinth of Knossos be explained by the Minoan civilization? This article examines the evidence.

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with events in our modern world. The latest such project is a pithy double bill of ...

The flurry of four- and five-star reviews that poured from previous productions have resulted in Phaedra + Minotaur’s short stint at the Linbury being already sold out. Never fear, however, this feels ...

Britten’s Phaedra, text taken from Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre (of which I seem to have five different texts and academic studies on my shelves—I’m glad to be prompted to seek them ...