King Minos kept bull and killed another bull instead.Poseidon got angry and decided to punish him. A year later Pasiphea, Minos'wife,gave birth to the Minotaur,a beast that had the head and the tail of a bull but a body of a man.
The Monitaur killed a lot of people. King Minos made a labyrinth under his castle and locked the Moinotaur there. After that,the King ordered that every year seven young men and seven young girls would come from Athens for the Minotaur to eat.
After some years,the Greek hero Theseus decided to kill the beast.He went to Creat,and with the help of Minos'daunghter,Ariadne,he killed the Minotaur.