The Minoan Labyrinth
The Ancients
History Hit
4.7 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey immerses players in the mythology of Ancient Greece. In particular, they can walk in the footsteps of Theseus through the Labyrinth and come face to face with the mythical Minotaur. Commonly associated with the maze-like Knossos palace on Crete, how much of the myth is rooted in reality? Prof Nicoletta Momigliano guides Tristan Hughes through the pathways between myth and reality of the Minoan Labyrinth.
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| 1:12.5 | What better job could there be? |
| 1:15.3 | But more seriously, |
| 1:17.0 | the ancient team have been doing an absolutely fantastic job over the 2025, |
| 1:20.6 | as they always have, |
| 1:21.8 | and so over the festive period, |
| 1:24.2 | we are releasing a series of episodes from our archive, |
| 1:28.5 | really fun episodes that we want to share with you. Today, this episode actually comes from a sister podcast of |
| 1:35.5 | the History Hit Stable, Echoes of History, which explores the history and archaeology behind |
| 1:41.1 | various Assassin's Creed games, including Assassin's Creed Odyssey. In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, |
| 1:48.5 | they explore the story of the Minotaur and the Labyrinth, the Minoan Labyrinth. But what do we actually |
| 1:55.3 | know about this? Well, we're delving deep into that today. Is the Minoan labyrinth? |
| 2:01.3 | Is it completely mythological, aligning with Theseus and the Minotaur and the like? |
| 2:06.3 | Or could there be an archaeological basis to this great maze beneath the Minoan palace at Canossos? |
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