In mythology, Minos's son Androgeus was murdered in Attica through a conspiracy. King Minos raised an army to avenge his son, bringing great disaster upon the people there.
To quell Minos's anger and lift Athens's calamity, the Athenians sued for peace and promised to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete as tribute every nine years. Once Minos received them, he imprisoned them in the Cretan Labyrinth, where the half-man, half-bull Minotaur lived, and the Minotaur killed them.
During the third tribute, the young Theseus arrived in Crete with the chosen boys and girls. With the help of the Cretan princess, he used a ball of thread to solve the labyrinth, then slew the Minotaur with a sword she gave him.
Princess Ariadne deeply loved Theseus, but the Fates rejected their love. Theseus later abandoned her on a deserted island.
A princess might know how to deal with monsters, but she did not necessarily know how to survive on a deserted island. Just as the princess was consumed by grief, Dionysus, the god of wine, appeared. He gave her a beautiful crown set with sparkling jewels as a wedding gift. Before long, the princess died of illness. The ever-joyful god of wine was heartbroken at the loss of his beloved wife, so he cast the magnificent crown into the sky. It rose higher and higher until it joined the stars, becoming the Corona Borealis in the heavens.
However, archaeological discoveries showed that there really had been labyrinths on Crete, but there was no evidence that Minotaurs had existed.
After the Athenians conquered Minos, they killed all the men and enslaved the women and children, just as they had done in Troy.
When the Athenians no longer pursued nobility and justice, evil became a virtue.
Deceit was treated as cleverness,