Pasiphae, mother of the minotaur. Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenère, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier. Gaultier, or Galter, was a French engraver, born at Mainz about 1561, and died in Paris in 1641. According to Greek Mythology, Pasiphae (in order to actually copulate with the bull), had the Athenian artificer Daedalus, construct a portable wooden cow with a cowhide covering, within which she was able to satisfy her strong desire.
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