It does appear (Dante's version) to be a bit more horrifying, due to the reason you mentioned. But obviously it did not reach the public imagination in the way the original depiction did.
Also i guess you know how the minotaur came to be; Poseidon commanded king Minos to sacrifice a bull to his name, but Minos was captivated by the bull's beauty and instead killed another one in its place. Poseidon became enraged with this mockery and made Minos' wife, queen Pasiphae, fall in love with a bull.
Enter Daedalus, who build the replica of a cow for Pasiphae to lure the bull with and have intercourse with it. The sole offspring was the minotaur
I sometimes wonder if in some dark period of mankind such experiments did not indeed happen; i mean even today it is not known probably what the result of such an intercourse would be, how the offspring would look. Maybe in some dark era it was practiced, for whatever reason.
No one believes in it. It's Greek mythology.
^ Well... If a man can do naughty things with a horse, I don't see why not. Who knows what else the Ancient Greeks did?
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Well, the divine comedy is a book that aimed at subverting standards of knowldge and expectations about what (and who) would actually be found in hell... so I guess a reversed Minotaur makes a lot of thematic sense.
Anyway, the classic portrait seens to me more terrifying, a better suited descriptions of the insanity withing humanity; all our craftness, but the mind of a brute and dangerous animal. I don't find it suprisinf that Ariadiny uses a trick to take Teseu out of the labiryint - in ultimate analisys, the triumphy of a human head (ergo, humane toughts) over brute beastly strengh is the ultimate point of the allegory.
Regards.
New entry for a 1,000 ways to die?
I guess not.
Sounds like a pain in the assI think we need to send an idea to the scriptwriters of Final Destination 6.
