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title: Reflecting on the Legend of the Minotaur
description: A proposal for reflecting on the legend of the Minotaur.
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  name: Graciela Paula Caldeiro
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<h2 id="reflexionado-sobre-el-mito-del-minotauro">Reflecting on the Myth of the Minotaur</h2>

**Relevant topics:** The following are some of the themes that could be considered under this proposed activity

> -   Learning
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> -   Facing difficulties
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> -   Simple solutions to complex problems
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> -   Cunning
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> -   Taboos
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> -   Fears
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> -   Courage
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> -   Collaboration
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> -   Giving and receiving help
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<h2 id="propuestas-de-trabajo">Work proposals</h2>

**Basic reading material:** [Click here to go to the Legend of the Minotaur](/en/la_leyenda_del_minotauro/)

Questions for reflection in small groups, followed by a plenary discussion:

> -   Why is the Minotaur a monster?
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> -   What is monstrous about a being who is only partly human?
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> -   What monstrous things might we conceal in our own lives? How do we do it? Why?
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> -   What is a labyrinth like? What might its symbolic meaning be?
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> -   Why would Theseus, being a hero, accept the help that Ariadne offers him?
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> -   What might Ariadne's thread mean for us today?
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<h2 id="otras-alternativas-de-perfil-ludico">Other alternatives with a playful character</h2>

> -   Three groups are formed. One analyses the story from Ariadne's perspective, another from Theseus's, and another from the Minotaur's.
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> -   The groups then share their points of view in order to reach a general conclusion.
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> -   Could Theseus have failed? What interpretation would we make?
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> -   Each group designs a labyrinth and then passes it to another group to solve. The groups then reflect on the simultaneous experience of constructing a labyrinth and solving one. What did each process call upon? How did they manage it?
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