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👤 the Bull of Poseidon

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  • Information
    sent to Minos on Crete
    Sometimes conflated with
    👤 the Cretan Bull Heracles' seventh Labor
    Rationalized form
    👤 Tauros (rat. Bull of Poseidon)
    Gender
    Male
    Animal belonging to
    👤 Poseidon
    Father of
    👤 the Minotaur killed by Theseus
    Has children with
    👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) wife of Minos, mother of Minotaur
    Related entities
    👤 Poseidon Olympian god🌍 Crete (island) island in the Aegean👤 Minos (Cretan I) king of Crete, father of Ariadne and Pasiphae👤 Daidalos Athenian inventor & architect, builder of the Labyrinth👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) wife of Minos, mother of Minotaur👤 the Minotaur killed by Theseus🏺 the Replica Cow used by Pasiphae to have sex with a bull👤 the Cretan Bull Heracles' seventh Labor⭐ Taurus (constellation)🌍 Mount Dicte (Crete) mountain on Crete associated with the birth of Zeus and Dictynna🌍 Gortyna (Crete) city in Crete
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3-3.1.4📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.8📖 Euripides, Hippolytos 307-352📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 93 Most📖 Heracleitos, On Unbelievable Stories 7📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 2📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 26📖 Lucian, Astrology 16📖 Lucian, Lucius, or the Ass 51📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.145📖 Diodoros, Library 4.13.4📖 Diodoros, Library 4.77.1-4.77.9📖 Pomponius Mela 2.112📖 Lucian, The Dance 49📖 Vergil, Eclogues 6📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.1-8.151📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.152-8.182📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.666-9.797📖 Ovid, Heroides 4
    Mentioned in text
    Apollodoros, LibraryEuripides, HippolytosHesiod, EhoiaiHeracleitos, On Unbelievable StoriesPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesBacchylides, DithyrambsLucian, AstrologyLucian, Lucius, or the AssD-Scholia, IliadDiodoros, LibraryPomponius MelaLucian, The DanceVergil, EcloguesOvid, MetamorphosesOvid, Heroides
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Philostephanos FHG fr. 36 = FGrHist 1751 fr. 22📖 Callimachus, Aetia fr. 43 Harder
    Depictions
    🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa degli Scienziati VI 14, 43, Pompeii (PALP r6-i14-p43-space-11)🎨 Wall Painting from Bicentennial House, Herculaneum (LIMC Pasiphae 5)
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