Labyrinthus Graffiti
Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in the ancient city of Pompeii, someone scratched a labyrinth into the wall, paired with the words "The Labyrinth, here lives the Minotaur" onto a building, a joke pulled straight from Greek myth.
The Minotaur was trapped in a maze built by King Minos, and some historians believe this was a sly jab at the homeowner himself. Comparing him, or his house, to a beast lurking in its own maze. A small joke, scratched into stone, that has outlasted the man it mocked by two thousand years.
*The prints and frames follow standard A-series sizes (A1, A2, A3).
*The prints and frames follow standard A-series sizes (A1, A2, A3).
Before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in the ancient city of Pompeii, someone scratched a labyrinth into the wall, paired with the words "The Labyrinth, here lives the Minotaur" onto a building, a joke pulled straight from Greek myth.
The Minotaur was trapped in a maze built by King Minos, and some historians believe this was a sly jab at the homeowner himself. Comparing him, or his house, to a beast lurking in its own maze. A small joke, scratched into stone, that has outlasted the man it mocked by two thousand years.
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