Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete, with the aim of killing the Minotaur. And if he kills the creature he will signal his success by flying a white sail on the return journey.

Greek myths are all over theatre stages at the moment, their fierce, vengeful stories offering unnerving parallels with ...

He’s similarly nonplussed at Sounion, a few miles outside Athens, and site of Aegeus’s suicide when his son Theseus returned from slaying the minotaur but forgot to hoist the white sails that ...

But why? Theseus, the Greek hero of myth who defeated the Minotaur and navigated the perilous Labyrinth, is renowned for his ship. Philosophers have been fascinated by it for ages. Plutarch tells ...

Pairing of two Greek myths by Deborah Warner and Kim Brandstrup is physically and emotionally powerful, with strong ...

A king (Theseus, I suppose) had a magnificent ship that was the pride of the kingdom. Over the years, the vessel needed frequent repairs. One by one, old planks were torn out and new wood put in ...

Myths include King Midas, Perseus, Medusa, Persephone and Hades, The Minotaur, Theseus and Odysseus. There is a new Resource Pack available which is full of activity suggestions that can be ...

Britten’s Phaedra, text taken from Robert Lowell’s translation of Racine’s Phèdre (of which I seem to have five different ...