Friday, May 8, 2009

Mazes and Monsters, part deux


Here we have Theseus, Hero of Athens, battling the Minotaur of Crete. According to what I've read, Theseus found the Minotaur sleeping and stabbed him to death. That's not very sporting, and it's not much fun to draw. This will have a background...eventually.

1 comment:

Clovis said...

the original myth from the archaic period depicts THeseus grabbing the minotaur by the horn, overpowering him and driving his sword through his neck.

But that was before the classical greek author gave their own twist to and version of the story