请问下关于Theseus and The Minotaur的英文介绍谢谢

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最近接到个project about using a large posterboard,make a maze and then illustrate the story of Theseus and the Minotaur
可是.我历史很不好..现在完全没有头脑..思绪...现在请大虾们..帮帮忙帮忙一起搞定这个历史的毕业PROJECT...谢谢..偶要英文版的..3Q..

Half bull, half man, the Minotaur was the most fearsome monster of ancient times. Its horns were sharp as knives, its great hooves could kick the life out the strongest of heroes, and its food was human flesh. The Minotaur lived in the labyrinth, a great maze of winding passages on the island of Crete. Each year seven youths and seven maidens were sent from Greece as food for the beast.

One year, Theseus, the greatest of the Greek heroes, said he would go to Crete and fight the monster. "Let me go as one of the victims," he said to his father Aegeus. "I'll kill the Minotaur and free Greece from this peril." Aegeus was unsure. He remembered how others had promised to slay the beast and had ended up dead. But Theseus insisted. Soon his ship was rigged with black sails, which was the custom when Greeks were sailing to meet their doom. "Watch out when I return," said Theseus. "I will hoist white sails to show that I've succeeded.&qu