Theseus persuades his father to allow him to go to Crete, with the aim of killing the Minotaur. And if he kills the creature he will signal his success by flying a white sail on the return journey.

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Philosophers have been fascinated by it for ages. Plutarch tells us that when Theseus sailed back from Crete to Athens after killing the Minotaur, his ship became an object of veneration.