Theseus and the Minotaur

A tag team narration....

Theseus and the Minotaur

C: Every year King Minos ordered seven young men and women to be sent from Athens to ….

E: Crete. He needed food for the minotaur. One year Theseus went.

A: The minotaur was half bull and half man.

C: Theseus was the prince of Athens.

E: He wanted to kill the minotaur.

C: Theseus told his people that if he beat the minotaur, he would come back with white sails on his ship instead of black.

M: When they arrived in Crete, King Minos showed them the labyrinth that hid the minotaur.

C: The prisoners would be fed to the minotaur that night.

A: Ariadne gave him some rope and said that he should tie it onto the door of the labyrinth so that he could get back out.

E: He found the minotaur and they were fighting for hours. He finally killed it.

C: Then Theseus followed the string back to the door of the labyrinth and Ariadne had freed the other prisoners. Then they got on their ship and headed back to Athens but in their haste, they forgot to put up the white sails.

E: Theseus’ father, King Aegeus, saw the black sails and threw himself off a cliff into the sea.

A: When he arrived, the people told him that his father had thought he was dead and jumped into the sea. And the people told him that he was king now.

C: Theseus named the sea the Aegean Sea.