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Hershel Shanks

The mythical hero Theseus, who killed the man-eating Minotaur imprisoned by the Cretan king Minos in the Labyrinth, is depicted in the center medallion of the above mosaic from Paphos, on Cyprus’s southwestern coast. This late-third-century A.D. mosaic floor was uncovered in a villa thought to have been the palace of the Roman governor.