Cretan Bull

In order to confirm his right to rule, rather than any of his brothers, he prayed Poseidon send him a snow-white bull as a sign.Enraged, Poseidon had Aphrodite curse Pasiphaë, the wife of Minos, causing her to fall in love with the bull.[5] The palace at Knossos displays a number of murals depicting young men and women vaulting over a bull.While scholars are divided as to whether or not this reflects an actual practice, Barry B. Powell suggests it may have contributed to the story of the young Athenians sent to the Minotaur.[6] McInerney observes that the story of Pasiphaë and the Cretan Bull was not written until after Crete had come under Greek control.
Ancient drachma from Larissa , around 420 BC, depicting Heracles with the Cretan Bull. Now in the Palais de Rumine , Lausanne, Switzerland
Heracles performing one of his labors as he forces the Cretan Bull to the ground. The engraving was created by B. Picart in 1731.
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