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- 3. Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.
- 5. is the presumed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, two hugely influential epic poems of ancient Greece.
- 6. short tale to teach a moral lesson, often with animals or inanimate objects as characters
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- 1. b.c., Athenian statesman
- 2. b.c., Greek poet, born in Lesbos.
- 4. sovereign or other ruler who uses power oppressively or unjustly.
- 7. b.c., Greek writer of fables.