Poseidon now sent the bull mad. Its untamable terrorizing of the island caused Eurystheus to choose it as the seventh task he set for Heracles, who came to Crete, subdued it, and took it to Mycenae. This was of course the bull that escaped from Mycenae, crossed into mainland Greece, and tore up the plain of Marathon until you, my splendid boy, tamed it and brought it to Athens finally to be sacrificed. Quite a bull, wasn’t it?
