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[|origins]The Greek legend of King Minos is an interesting one, after facing grief and sorrow from losing his son and not capturing a devious figure in his life. King Minos went into a state of cold-heartedness. He had a minotaur placed inside a maze in Crete, where every nine years seven Athenians would be sent to fight the minotaur, usually facing their demise. Prince Theseus the son of King Aegeus volunteered to go slay the beast himself. The king being reluctant of his son going to fight a beast that has killed so many so easily gave him and his crew a message. When you return from Crete, if my son is dead keep the sails black, if he is alive change them to white. When Theseus arrived at the palace, he met with Adoradne (The Daughter of King Minos) who instantly fell in love with him and agreed to help him slay the Minotaur if he would take her home and marry her. Theseus agreed and took Adoradne’s Magical ball of yarn/twine and let it lead him to the Minotaur, after a long battle he conquered the beast. On the return home, Theseus left Adoradne on an island, and continued home. Adoradne, who was betrayed, became furious and angry and began to call out to the gods. They answered her call and helped her seek revenge on Theseus. On the return home they forgot to put up the white sail to indicate that Prince Theseus was still alive, upon seeing the sails still black, King Aegeus thinking his son had fallen in great sadness through himself of a cliff and drowned in what we call the Aegean Sea. http://www.makrigialos.com/default.php?param=minos http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_colum_part3_c.htm http://www.essortment.com/all/theseusminotaur_rzuk.htm

http://www.makrigialos.com/default.php?param=minos rather than King Minos being in a state of cold-heartedness, it was much more about conquest and a long fight with the King of Megara.

http://www.helium.com/items/914807-mythology-the-legend-of-the-minotaurs King Minos really had disregarded Possiedon, and so Possiedon cursed his wife into falling in love with a bull. The result was the birth of the minautour, a half man half bull. King minos hid it away in a labyrinth. After winning a war over Athens, he demanded that the Athenians send 7 women and 7 men to be sacrificed and eaten by the minotaur. 

καὶ ἐπέθεντο πάντες διαδήματα μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν ὀπίσω αὐτῶν ἔτη πολλὰ καὶ ἐπλήθυναν κακὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ. "And they all took crowned themselves after his death, and so did their sons after them for many years, and evils were increased on the earth". An unknown Jewish Author.1st-2nd century BC) from http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/History/Diadochi.html  This section of writing basically explains how after Alexander died and his territory was split up amongst his successors there was much deceit, double crossing, cheating, lying and evils taking place for more power.When Alexander the Great died he left behind a lot of land and empires to be feuded over by his family and generals. King Phillip the 3rd and Alexander’s son (Alexander the 5th) ruled together, Prediccas betrayed the people who worked with and had them either assassinated or murdered so he could take full power as Regent of the Empire. News of Alexander’s death also caused many revolts mostly in Greece.

(http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/sports.html) The olympics were not always like they were today, in ancient times during the first olympics only free men who spoke greek were the only ones allowed to even attend the olympics. In addition to that all the olympics were held in Olympia. Like our own the Winning and high preforming athlets would help promote their country and gain respect of the others. One sport that we still do today that also took place previously was racing. Altough ancient racing could get more extreme by wearing armor while running adding 50-60 pounds to the runners weight. With all these great events that took place during the olympics, [|great stories]also arose. The games and setup of the people can also [|spark interest]. Some belifs about the [|origination]of the olymics.