ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Theseus, who was sixteen, his mother told him of the circumstances of his birth and took him to the rock under which Aegeus had placed a sword and a pair of sandals as a test of his identity. But, as he drew his sword, Aegeus recognized it and knocked over the goblet. It would be reasonable to suppose that the episode of the Labyrinth occupied an important place in the second part of the trilogy. As well as producing interesting variations on the theme of the story of the family, it also raises questions of legitimacy and power. It was therefore through the mystical combat between Theseus and the Minotaur that people would learn what the Greeks understood of the most terrible and mysterious aspects of the relationship between men and inferior beings. It was devoted to Greek myths and, curiously enough, half of it was concerned with story of the Labyrinth.
