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The savage bull that the hero, Theseus, captured on the plain of Marathon north of the city of Athens.
Later versions of the story say that the Marathonian Bull was the same bull that Herakles (Heracles) had captured on the island of Crete during his seventh Labor; after Herakles returned the bull to his cousin, Eurystheus, the bull was supposedly released on the plain of Marathon and then recaptured by Theseus; the chronology of the Labors of Herakles and the life of Theseus would date this event to one generation before the Trojan War.
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