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The so-called sport was known to have existed among the Pagan Greeks. It is not known if they used professional or amateur athletes, or recruits from Prisoners of War or slaves, etc ( Slaves and Prisoners were used in the Roman Gladiatorial combats). As the Greeks and Romans were frequently at war- it makes sense Greek POW"s were enslaved and used as gladiators- such as Spartacus- who was a Greek, a war-like Spartan as the name suggests.
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Why did pharaohs wear a bull's tail?
Pharaohs wore the bull's tail to symbolize that they had the powers of nature and were as strong as a bull.
In greek legend thesus and the minotuar what kind of creture was the minoutere?
The minotaur was a man with the head of a bull. Poseidon gave a white bull to king Minos, who was supposed to sacrifice it to the god. Instead, Minos kept it, and so Poseidon caused Minos' wife Pasiphae to fall in love with the bull. Daedalus helped her build a wooden cow and she hid inside it in order to mate with the bull. The resulting child was the minotaur, or "Minos's bull".
Who captured the cretan bull?
Hercules.
What is the symbol of the goddess Hebe?
Bull
Who were the Trojans fighting during the Trojan war?
The Trojans were fighting the Greeks
