 Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos' wife Pasiphaë with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos' daughter Ariadne.One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared.