The Minotaur (1910)
Theseus, the son of the King of Athens, has been brought up by his mother apart from his father with the understanding that when he can wield his father's sword he can present himself to his father, who will put him to a test of valor. He bids his mother good-bye after she has given him his father's sword and goes to meet the King, who does not recognize his son until the boy shows him the weapon. In Crete, so the legend runs, lived a Minotaur, a powerful monster in human form, with a bull's head, who periodically demanded a provision of seven maidens and seven youths whom he devoured. The King of Crete had sacrificed the last of his desirable maidens to the Minotaur and sent word to the King of Athens that he must secure the Minotaur's tribute of fourteen victims from Athens or he would declare war against the Athenians. Theseus hears the demand and volunteers to go to Crete as one of the victims. His father, the King of Athens, reluctantly consents to have him go. He proceeds to Crete, where he denounces Minas, the King, and wins the love of his daughter. She aids Theseus to escape and he decides to go to the Minotaur's den and slay the Minotaur. The King's daughter goes with him and, to aid him in penetrating the labyrinth and lair of the monster and insure his return, she fastens one end of a silken thread around his wrist while she holds the other end, slowly unwinding it as he, with his father's sword, goes into the cave where he encounters the beast, kills him and cuts off his head as a trophy of his courage. With the guidance of the thread and his sweetheart he issues from the cave. Theseus, with the daughter of the King of Crete, returns to Athens where he appears before his father. He tells him his story of the destruction of the Minotaur, receives his father's blessing and presents his sweetheart to his father, who marries his son to the beautiful daughter of the King of Crete, who is delighted when he learns that the Minotaur has been slain by his son-in-law.
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