Profs & Pints DC: Labyrinth Lore

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Labyrinth Lore,” a mapping of tales of loss and finding, with Brittany Warman, former instructor at Ohio State University and co-founder of The Carterhaugh School of Folklore and the Fantastic.

Labyrinths and mazes have inspired and haunted mankind since King Minos forced the inventor Dadaleus to build one to contain his wife’s monstrous child, the Minotaur. Since then, the labyrinth has only continued to capture imaginations, appearing in novels, films, anime, self-help books, and, of course, actual landscapes.

Come take a journey through the labyrinths and mazes that captivate us with Brittany Warman of the Carterhaugh School, who has earned a big following among Profs and Pints fans with her past talks on folklore, myths, and legends.

She’ll discuss how Greek myth of the Minotaur made the labyrinth a place of terror but also adventure and triumph. Although the flesh-eating Minotaur devoured many Athenians, he…