Marathonian bull
animal · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Theseus
Bull terrorizing the Tetrapolis, captured alive by Theseus, driven through the city, and sacrificed to Apollo.
After he had mastered it, he made a display of driving it alive through the city, and then sacrificed it to the Delphinian Apollo.
He also coined money, and stamped it with the effigy of an ox, either in remembrance of the Marathonian bull, or of Taurus, the general of Minos, or because he would invite the citizens to agriculture.
Tusculan Disputations
Bull captured by Theseus at Marathon