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Minotaur in Greek mythology, a creature who was half-man and half-bull, the offspring of Pasiphaë, wife of Minos, and a bull with which she fell in love. Confined in Crete in a labyrinth made by Daedalus and fed on human flesh, it was eventually slain by Theseus.

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