Ariadne (poem) "and both story and verse have a breath-taking rapidity that is wholly admirable." He regretted, however, that Lucas had not used language in the modernist way, with obliqueness and ambiguity. "The Listener" did not share this regret: "While preserving the great metrical tradition," its reviewer wrote, ""Ariadne" is a continuous refreshment of it, and is free at once of archaic pedantries and modernist affectations." More recently, Simon Tidworth in "The Quest for Theseus" (1970) believed that making the Minotaur Minos in a bull-mask was "a real stroke of originality", but, comparing the two works, preferred Nikos Kazantzakis' drama "Κούρος, ή
Valley of the Minotaur Valley of the Minotaur Valley of the Minotaur is a computer game for the Apple II, Commodore 64, Commodore PET, VIC-20 home computers. It was published by "Softalk" magazine, under the "Zeuss Scientific" label in 1983. It was released on a 5¼ inch floppy disk. It is a work of interactive fiction, also known as a ""text adventure"". The game occurs within a large, fictional setting that includes a detailed and exotic terrain, with some references to Greek mythology. Despite the fact it relies on a simple verb-noun parser, it appears to be inspired by the first of the "Zork"