![]() ![]() In the third year of this sacrificial tradition, Theseus, the prince of Athens, joins as one of the sacrifices and plans to slay the minotaur. Oh, and his minotaur son is locked in an underground labyrinth beneath his castle, to which Athens must sacrifice fourteen children each year to pay for past crimes. Minos rules Crete with sharp words and an iron fist. ![]() But is this particular odyssey into the well-trodden realm of Greek myth retellings worth the trials ahead? Time to trade in our Dark Horse picks for Dark Pegasus picks and find out, because Jennifer Saint’s Ariadne whisks us away to a cutthroat branch of Greek mythology torn straight from Athena’s olive tree.Īriadne is the eldest daughter of Minos. Ariadne flips the legend of Theseus, minotaur-slayer, on its head, focusing instead on the titular Ariadne and her sister, Phaedra. ![]()
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