Key facts
- Grouping
- Legendary creature
- Country
- Greece
- Region
- Crete
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mythological bull
- Part of
- Greek mythology
- Gender
- male organism
- Child
- Minotaur
- Country
- Greece
- Image
- Mosaico Trabajos Hércules (M.A.N. Madrid) 07.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cretan Bull
- present in work
- Labours of Heracles
- worshipped by
- Greek mythology
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Encyclopedic overview
In Greek mythology, the Cretan Bull (Ancient Greek: Κρὴς ταῦρος, romanized: Krḕs taûros) was the bull Pasiphaë fell in love with, giving birth to the Minotaur.
Mythology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cretan Bull” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.