ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Minotaur's story, which is inextricably linked with that of the labyrinth the maze that was constructed for the creature, that was doomed to disappear with it and in which it waited. By implication, the Minotaur evokes the story of the labyrinth and people are reminded how it was conceived in the false heifer's side. However, by including the Minotaur in his monster's gallery, Dante has contributed to the creation of a particular type of image of the creature, i.e. there is a tendency to represent it as part of a mythical bestiary. People's suspicions that this is the labyrinth are gradually confirmed and the last sentence, in which Theseus takes over the narrative to tell Ariadne that the Minotaur, offered virtually no resistance. In the Greek and Latin Classical myth, the Minotaur was no. the subject of an autonomous literary theme. It is impossible to destroy an image and impossible to kill the Minotaur.
