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Theseus and the Minotaur by Yvan Pommaux5/12/2023 Later, Pommaux draws Pasiphaë climbing into a hollow cow “to get closer to the white bull” that Poseidon has made her fall in love with soon after, she gives birth to the Minotaur. up in a watery embrace” by the god while bathing. “Unable to resist passions,” Theseus’s mother-to-be, Aethra, is “swept. Like many myths, Theseus’s legend has a few details that require some sensitivity when recasting the story for younger audiences. From there, Pommaux offers clean pencil-and-ink images that range from small horizontal panels to larger scenes, colored in pale tan, green, pink, and blue. Perhaps referencing the oral traditions through which the myths were first disseminated, the story is bookended by nighttime scenes on a boat in the Aegean Sea, where an elderly man recounts Theseus’s story to a boy and girl. French author-artist Pommaux offers a solid graphic retelling of the life of Theseus, first published in France.
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