Ariadne sacrifice seven young men and seven maidens to the Minotaur every seven or nine years. One year, the sacrificial party included Theseus, the son of King Aegeus, who volunteered to come and kill the Minotaur. Ariadne fell in love at first sight, and helped him by giving him a sword and a ball of thread (μίτο της Αριάδνης 'Ariadne's thread'), so that he could find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. She eloped with Theseus after he achieved his goal, but according to Homer "he had no joy of her, for ere that, Artemis slew her in seagirt Dia
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"