 Modern interpretations consistently portray the Minotaur with the head of a bull, the cloven hooves of a bull and the torso of a man, but differ in the extent to which the legs resemble those of a bull.Androgeus, son of Minos, had been killed by the Athenians, who were jealous of the victories he had won at the Panathenaic festival.Others say he was killed at Marathon by the Cretan Bull, his mother's former taurine lover, who Aegeus, king of Athens, had commanded him to slay.