For #SlashedandMashed Release Week, I’m sharing some book extras. Today I thought I’d post an excerpt from the lead story in the collection “Theseus and the Minotaur.”
I wrote “Theseus and the Minotaur” almost two years ago when I was prepping to start a Patreon page and wanted to front-load some of the work providing content. I love Greek mythology, so a natural place for me to start was re-imagining some classic myths and giving them a queer spin.
Dudes and dudettes, you’ve probably seen that I shared a (long) short story here over the past two weeks. You can of course read it for free, and here are some neato, helpful linkies just for you:
For my weekly post I bring you the final installment of “Theseus and the Minotaur.” If you haven’t read the earlier parts of the story, here are links to Part… Read more »
This week I’m posting the second installment in my retold story: “Theseus and the Minotaur.” If you missed Part One, you can read it here.
In this section, Ariadne enters as a full-fledged supporting character. She may be the most intriguing figure in the myth in that, unlike the famous romances of Paris and Helen, and Perseus and Andromeda, the nature of her relationship with the hero Theseus is curiously unclear. Did she help Theseus because she loved him? Why did she not continue with him to Athens? Did they part ways by mutual agreement or by some accident. The accounts of that part of her story are strangely unclear, and good fodder for the imagination.
I’ve always loved the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, which is credited to second century B.C.E. historian Apollodorus of Athens in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, and Plutarch and Ovid elsewhere. It’s so imaginative, and it’s been an enduring inspiration source for artwork, fantasy, and gaming.
