Dirty Ladies Being Silly. The Correspondence That Got Out of Hand

Right, now, thanks to “someone” (you know who you are 😉 ) my mind is now occupied too with this story of poor Pasiphae girl…Juicy story, I must say…But it has an official status of a Greek myth, so guess, it is not forbidden to publish in DD then (and I’ll pick up the most decent version of it)…Just a morality story of what could happened if one won’t oblige the Venus…;-)

Pasiphae, daughter of Sol [Helios] and wife of Minos, for several years did not make offerings to the goddess Venus. Because of this Venus inspired in her an unnatural love for a bull. At the time when Daeadalus came there as an exile, he asked her to help him. For her he made a wooden heifer, and put in it the hide of a real heifer, and in this she lay with the bull. From this intercourse she bore the Minotaur, with bull’s head but human body. Then Daedalus made for the Minotaur a labyrinth with an undiscoverable exit in which it was confined. When Minos found out the affair he cast Daedalus into prison, but Pasiphae freed him from his chains …
After he [Minos] conquered the Athenians their revenues became his; he decreed, moreover that each year they should send seven of their children as food for the Minotaur. After Theseus had come from Troezene, and had learned what a calamity afflicted the state, of his own accord he promised to go against the Minotaur … When Theseus came to Crete, Ariadne, Minos’ daughter, loved him so much that she betrayed her brother and saved the stranger, or she showed Theseus the way out of the Labyrinth. When Theseus had entered and killed the Minotaur, by Ariadne’s advise he got out by unwinding the thread. Ariadne, because she had been loyal to him, he took away, intending to marry her. [Hyginus Fabulae 40-43]

So you say – Greek island of Delos is an interesting tourist destination, eh? 😉