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How and why did Ariadne help Theseus defeat the Minotaur?

When Theseus arrived in Crete to fight the monstrous Minotaur, Aphrodite arranged for Ariadne, the daughter of the Cretan king Minos, to fall in love with him at first sight.

According to another version, Ariadne fell in love with Theseus at a wrestling competition when she saw how he threw the former winner over himself three times in a row and pressed him to the ground with his shoulders. "I will help you kill my half-brother the Minotaur," she secretly promised him, "if you take me to Athens and make me your wife." Theseus gladly accepted this offer and vowed to marry Ariadne.

Daedalus, the famous builder of the Labyrinth, had previously given Ariadne a magical ball of thread and taught her how to enter and exit the Labyrinth. She had to open the door and tie the free end of the thread to the door lintel, and then follow the ball, which, becoming smaller and smaller with each step, would lead through cunning turns and transitions to the inner room where the Minotaur lives.

Ariadne gave this ball to Theseus and ordered him to follow the ball until it leads him to a sleeping monster, who should be grabbed by the hair and sacrificed to Poseidon. He will find his way back by winding the thread into a ball.

Theseus did everything as he was told, after which Ariadne secretly fled with him.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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