If your class enjoyed this PowerPoint story and want to learn more about hero stories, we recommend taking a look at our hero’s journey teaching wiki. This great guide explains what hero’s journey stories are and how you can teach them to your class. Use this PowerPoint to inspire a writing task! Broaden children's vocabulary with this easy-to-print vocabulary mat, tailored to the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. Garnett, Richard; Vallée, Léon; Brandl, Alois (1923), The Book of Literature: A Comprehensive Anthology of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediæval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, vol.33, Grolier society . The District open to Hunters in Zokor is dependent on the number and type of clues they have collected while navigating the Labyrinth. The main character in this book is Phoenix Graves. Somehow, I found myself really liking his character, even though he could sometimes be stubborn to the point of annoyance, with all his ”I never lie” and "I forget nothing” nonsense, as demonstrated below. Nobody’s perfect, eh?

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The tool-tip reads: I've defeated the district leader! Their followers are demoralized and will drop 1 piece of extra district loot! Lower Section Homer, describing the shield of Achilles, remarked that Daedalus had constructed a ceremonial dancing ground for Ariadne, but does not associate this with the term labyrinth.Thomas, Joe (16 September 2018). "Touching tributes paid to popular scaffolder with 'heart as big as Liverpool' ". Liverpool Echo . Retrieved 7 March 2023. You could use this PowerPoint to inspire an end-of-topic creative writing task for your KS2 children. After ascending the throne of the island of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers as ruler. Minos prayed to the sea god Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull as a sign of the god's favour. Minos was to sacrifice the bull to honor Poseidon, but owing to the bull's beauty he decided instead to keep him. Minos believed that the god would accept a substitute sacrifice. To punish Minos, Poseidon made Minos's wife Pasiphaë fall in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the craftsman Daedalus fashion a hollow wooden cow, which she climbed into to mate with the bull. She then bore Asterius, the Minotaur. [13] Pasiphaë nursed the Minotaur but he grew in size and became ferocious. As the unnatural offspring of a woman and a beast, the Minotaur had no natural source of nourishment and thus devoured humans for sustenance. [ citation needed] Minos, following advice from the oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic Labyrinth to hold the Minotaur. Its location was near Minos's palace in Knossos. [14] Roman copy of a statue of the Minotaur's torso This section of the HUD identifies the Hunter's current position in Zokor. It also provides the following information and actions:

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Ox-Head and Horse-Face – two guardians or types of guardians of the underworld in Chinese mythology The Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull. According to Sophocles's Trachiniai, when the river spirit Achelous seduced Deianira, one of the guises he assumed was a man with the head of a bull. From classical antiquity through the Renaissance, the Minotaur appears at the center of many depictions of the Labyrinth. [15] Ovid's Latin account of the Minotaur, which did not describe which half was bull and which half man, was the most widely available during the Middle Ages, and several later versions show a man's head and torso on a bull's body – the reverse of the Classical configuration, reminiscent of a centaur. [16] This alternative tradition survived into the Renaissance, and is reflected in Dryden's elaborated translation of Virgil's description of the Minotaur in Book VI of the Aeneid: "The lower part a beast, a man above / The monument of their polluted love." [17] It still figures in some modern depictions, such as Steele Savage's illustrations for Edith Hamilton's Mythology (1942).

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The Aeneid of Virgil, as translated by John Dryden, found at http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.6.vi.html . Virgil's text calls the Minotaur "biformis"; like Ovid, he does not describe which part is bull, which part man. Councillor details - Councillor Alan Gibbons". councillors.liverpool.gov.uk. 7 March 2023 . Retrieved 7 March 2023. Each failure to catch will reduce the Stealth of the Hunter by a number equal to the Alert Level of the District. the Alan Gibbons Interview". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007 . Retrieved 15 August 2007. The councillors who took part in the rebellion were suspended by the Labour Party. [20] Shortly after, Gibbons was expelled. The party claimed this was because he had given an interview to the left-wing Socialist Appeal, which was proscribed by the party leadership. [18]

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The Minotaur seems to represent the entire zone of Violence, much as Geryon represents Fraud in Canto XVI, and serves a similar role as gatekeeper for the entire seventh Circle. [37] In 2000, Gibbons won a Blue Peter Book Award in 'The Book I Couldn't Put Down' category for Shadow of the Minotaur. He was a judge for the 2001 Blue Peter Book Awards. The Neophyte Scholar Study is encountered when Hunters have collected 15 to 49 Scholar clues. The Master Scholar Auditorium is encountered when Hunters have collected 50 to 79 Scholar clues. The Dark Library is encountered when Hunters have collected 80 or more Scholar clues. In the horror novel House of Leaves (2000) by author Mark Z. Danielewski the myth of the Minotaur is retold from the perspective of King Minos and functions as a recurring theme. Additionally the legend serves as a parallel to the labyrith-like architecture of The House on Ash Tree Lane, which is the main subject of the book.

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Alan Gibbons is an author of children's books and a Blue Peter Book Award. He currently lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm laborer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire where Alan experienced bullying for the first time. He began to write for his pupils as a teacher, but never tried to get any of his work published. Once Hunters have entered Zokor, the number of the clues found for that District provide the same amount of Stealth. District Leaders are only found in Alert Level 3 Fealty, Scholar, and Tech Districts. District Leaders are guarded and Hunters must capture 20 mice before the Leaders reveal themselves. District Leaders can only be caught once per visit to their District. The number of clues collected in the Labyrinth will equal the amount of Stealth available to the Hunter while in a District in Zokor.

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In 1974, Gibbons joined the International Socialists, forerunner to the Socialist Workers Party, where he was an organiser and member of the National Committee, before becoming disillusioned and leaving the party in 1996. [14] He was President of Knowsley National Union of Teachers (NUT) and a member of the Anti-Nazi League. [15] Following his expulsion from the Labour Party, Gibbons became deputy leader of the Liverpool Community Independents group of councillors on Liverpool City Council. [21] In the 2023 Liverpool City Council election, Gibbons was re-elected as an independent for the new Orrell Park ward with 77% of the vote, beating the Labour candidate by 1068 votes. He was one of three Liverpool Community Independent councillors to be elected. [22] [23] Awards and honours [ edit ] Emniyette olduğunu mu düşünüyorsun? Kendi dünyanın güvenli olduğunu mu düşünüyorsun? O zaman tekrar düşün…” Pasiphaë gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human; and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth. [23] During my big trawl for books that were retelling the Minotaur myth in the context of London, I was pointed towards Shadow of the Minotaur. I didn’t get my hands on it in time for the deadlines I was working towards, which actually is just as well – it’s located not in London, but Brownleigh, somewhere whose main characteristic is very pointedly not being London. However, it’s an interesting addition to my thoughts about how myth and place and space interact, particularly as the Minotaur seems to be a myth which offers a lot of scope for that kind of interpretative engagement.Hunters must navigate the Labyrinth to enter Zokor. While in Zokor Hunters are unable to access the Labyrinth. Standard Cheese will attract all mice in this location, but Glowing Gruyere is preferred by all mice except the Shadow Stalker. Asterion, depicted as a human prince who wears a bull mask, is the chief antagonist of The King Must Die, Mary Renault's 1958 reinterpretation of the Theseus myth in the light of the excavation of Knossos. Phoenix could also be a little melodramatic at times too, like when he was talking about all that ”I am reborn!” stuff, and more than once I found myself thinking, Seriously, what is that all about? Strangely though, I never found him annoying, apart from perhaps slightly when he seemed to have a totally different personality at school and at home. I wished he would just decide if he was embarrassed by his dad, or if he admired him.