Theseus and the Minotaur

The Hunger Games was inspired by the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.  Are you familiar with it?   In order to prevent an attack by the army of King Minos of Crete, the city of Athens agreed to send 14 youth - 7 boys and 7 girls - to Crete every 9 years, where they they would enter the Labyrinth to be eaten by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-beast monster.  King Aegeus's son, Theseus, was outraged and volunteered to go to Crete as one of the tributes and slay the Minotaur, which he did.