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The contrasting themes and traditions in Classical and Baroque Sculpture

Baroque

Why was Theseus in the labyrinth?

Every year, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were forced to go to the island Crete, as a tribute to the tyrant King Minos, the King of Crete. When they got there, King Minos would send them into a vast labyrinth to be devoured by his flesh eating Minotaur. When Theseus got word, he nobly volunteered to go, hoping to slay the beast.