Theseus and the Minotaur (video game) Theseus and the Minotaur (video game) Theseus and the Minotaur is a 1982 video game published by TSR. "Theseus and the Minotaur" is a hi-res 3D maze game in which the object is to find the princess Ariadne and lead her to the maze entrance. Chris Smith reviewed "Theseus and the Minotaur" in "The Space Gamer" No. 57. Smith commented that "Overall, this is a good game. The maze is different every time, though I can find no real difference between a complexity 1 and a complexity 100 game (they give you a choice at the beginning of each game).
Bacchus and Ariadne (poem) Ariadne" was toned down and contained a "sociability" that was mentioned in the preface of Hunt's "Foliage". When placed into a sequence following "Hero and Leander", the "Bacchus and Ariadne" is a consolation to the themes of the first. Bacchus is able to save Ariadne, whereas no one was able to save Hero. Hunt relied on the story from Ovid's "Heroides" to base his poem, but Hunt describes an end result to the story that Ovid leaves untold. A major connection between Hunt's and Ovid's version is that they begin at sunrise. Ovid uses the sunrise to show that Ariadne