I told you about Rome, right? Well, they lifted their mythology straight from the Greeks, who made up a bunch of crazy stories and were obsessed with heroes. Theseus was the prince of Athens, and one day, the king of one of the nearby islands, Minos, showed up and told Theseus and his father that Minos' son had died in Athens. He was pretty pissed off, so he told Theseus and his father that they had to give up seven Athenian women every year as tribute so that Minos could feed them to this monster, the Minotaur, who lived in the center of a labyrinth.

[Apparently his classical mythology class is good for something, even if it's spouting off stories to keep a princess from dying of boredom.]