Theseus, the mythical founder of Athens, volunteered to go to Crete as part of a tribute required by King Minos, where he had to find his way out of the labyrinth without getting killed by the Minotaur. ... This culture dominated the Greek world from about 1600 to 1100 b.c.e., and was illuminated five hundred years later in Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, clearly following the oral traditions of ancient societies. ...

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