GREEK MYTHOSThe Godsunder Codex
CRETAN BULL (the bull of Crete)
Monster · bull in Greek mythology
- Children
- Minotaur
- Haunts and cult places
- Marathon
- In the sources
- 4 ancient passages
In the myths
Theseus captured the bull alive, wrestled with it, and mastered it. Diodorus 4.59 +1 The bull caused significant harm to the residents of the Tetrapolis. Plutarch, Theseus 14.1 Heracles transported the bull from Crete to the Peloponnesus during one of his labors. Diodorus 4.59 Aegeus received the Marathonian bull from Theseus and sacrificed it to Apollo. Diodorus 4.59 Theseus killed the Marathonian bull. Strabo 9.1.22 Theseus paraded the living bull through the city streets. Plutarch, Theseus 14.1 Theseus mastered the Marathonian bull and brought it to Athens, where Aegeus received it. Diodorus 4.59
Fate
The bull was sacrificed to the Delphinian Apollo. Plutarch, Theseus 14.1
