Transcription: The voyage to Crete took several days, during which Theseus spoke more with the Rhapsod about stories, heroes, and life. Theseus also spent a good deal of time trying to comfort and amuse his fellow sacrificial victims. The Athenian youths and maidens were, for the most part, glum and not susceptible to Theseus's cheer. They had grown up with the possibility that they would be sent to Minos. If you were picked to go, they thought, then that was the end of that. There was not nothing you could do to change things. Resignation to their fate did not make them any happier about it, though. By cont ...
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