Most accounts agree that she found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island, and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.

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Athenians transferred Cretan Daedalus to make him Athenian-born, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus, who fled to Crete, having killed his nephew.

He could not leave Crete by sea, as the king kept strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched.

In Greek mythology, Minos (, Minōs ) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa.

Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by king Asterion ( or Asterius ) of Crete.

Minos then asked Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur, the offspring from the zoophilic encounter of Minos ' wife Pasiphae with a certain bull that the king refused to sacrifice to Poseidon, which he had placed within a labyrinth he commanded his architect Daedalus to build.

After dinner, he tells the farm laborers a fictitious tale of himself: He was born in Crete, had led a party of Cretans to fight alongside other Greeks in the Trojan War, and had then spent seven years at the court of the king of Egypt ; finally he had been shipwrecked in Thesprotia and crossed from there to Ithaca.

During Alexander's campaigns in the east, the Spartan king, Agis III sent a force to Crete in 333 BC with the aim of securing the island for Sparta.

Parmeniscus says that a certain Melisseus was king in Crete, and to his daughters Jove was brought to nurse.

As a large part of the Spartan army led by king Areus I is in Crete at the time, Pyrrhus has great hopes of taking the city easily, but the citizens organise stout resistance, allowing one of Antigonus II's commanders, Aminias the Phocian, to reach the city with a force of mercenaries from Corinth.

Soon after this, the Spartan king, Areus, returns from Crete with 2, 000 men.

In Greek mythology, Catreus ( English translation: " down-flowing ") was a king of Crete and a son of Minos and Pasiphaë.

In Greek mythology, Apemosyne was a daughter of Catreus, the son of Minos, and king of Crete.

In Greek mythology, Althaemenes or Althemenes ( or ) was the only son of Catreus, king of Crete, and the brother of Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene.

In Greek mythology, Aerope was a daughter of Catreus, the king of Crete, and sister to Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes.

Aerope's father was Catreus, the son of Minos, and king of Crete.

It was here that Demeter, disguised as an old lady who was abducted by pirates in Crete, came to an old well where the four daughters of the local king Keleos and his queen Metaneira ( Kallidike, Kleisidike, Demo and Kallithoe ) found her and took her to their palace to nurse the son of Keleos and Metaneira, Demophoon.

, " strength of Ida ") was a Cretan warrior, father of Orsilochus, Cleisithyra, Leucus and Iphiclus, son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, grandson of Minos and king of Crete.

Ariadne (; ; ; " most holy ", Cretan Greek αρι " most " and αδνος " holy "), in Greek mythology, was the daughter of Minos king of Crete, and his queen Pasiphaë, daughter of Helios, the Sun-titan.

Melisseus is simply another form of Melissus, also a Cretan " honey-man ," remembered by later mythographers as a " king of Crete.

The first Asterion ( Ancient Greek: ) or Asterius (), the son of Tectamus son of Dorus called by the Greeks " king " of Crete, was the consort of Europa and stepfather of her sons by Zeus, who had to assume the form of the Cretan bull of the sun to accomplish his role.

The sons were Minos, the just king in Crete who judged the Underworld ; Rhadamanthus, presiding over the Garden of the Hesperides or in the Underworld ; and Sarpedon, likewise a judge in the Afterlife.

The original meaning of the word remains unknown, but it seems that there is a strong connection with the mythic king of Crete, Minos, during the bronze-age Minoan civilization which flourished in Crete and in the Aegean islands ( 2000-1470 BC ).

The inhabitants of Crete were named Minoans by Arthur Evans, after the legendary king.

In process of time the title abbot was extended to clerics who had no connection with the monastic system, as to the principal of a body of parochial clergy ; and under the Carolingians to the chief chaplain of the king,, or military chaplain of the emperor, It even came to be adopted by purely secular officials.

In 506, the Breviarum or " Lex Romana " of Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, adopted and consolidated the Codex Theodosianus together with assorted earlier Roman laws.

William Forbes Skene and Alan Orr Anderson proposed that it should be read as " in conformity with the customs of the Gaels ", relating it to the claims in the king lists that Giric liberated the church from secular oppression and adopted Irish customs.

The king received him as an adopted son, entrusted him in 1515 with the Duchy of Oppeln, and in 1516 made him member of the tutelary government instituted for Hungary, and tutor of his son Louis II of Hungary and Bohemia.

Under the Constitution of 1791, the solution of a constitutional monarchy was adopted, and the king supported a war against Austria in order to increase his popularity, starting the long French Revolutionary Wars.

A constitutional assembly declared Norwegian independence, adopted a liberal constitution, and elected Christian Frederick king.

The king thereupon adopted the Muslim title and name ( in Arabic ) of Sultan ( besides the old Divehi title of Maha Radun or Ras Kilege or Rasgefānu ) Muhammad al Adil, initiating a series of six Islamic dynasties consisting of eighty-four sultans and sultanas that lasted until 1932 when the sultanate became elective.

In one, Midas was king of Pessinus, a city of Phrygia, who as a child was adopted by the king Gordias and Cybele, the goddess whose consort he was, and who ( by some accounts ) was the goddess-mother of Midas himself.

After taking the town, he banished the Lombard king to the Abbey of Corbie in France, and adopted the title " King of the Lombards " himself.

It was at once made the basis for new codes in Württemberg and Saxe-Weimar ; it was adopted in its entirety in the grand-duchy of Oldenburg ; and it was translated into Swedish by order of the king.

The Jaffna kingdom never came under the rule of any kingdom of the south except on one occasion ; in 1450, following the conquest led by king Parâkramabâhu VI's adopted son, Prince Sapumal.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, although, according to the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia adopted by royal decree in 1992, the king must comply with Sharia ( that is, Islamic law ) and the Quran.

However, In France, where reference to the British king was to be avoided if possible, the planet was known as ' Herschel ' until the name ' Uranus ' was universally adopted.

On July 8 the Congress adopted a petition to the king in the hopes that he would intervene in Parliament on behalf of the colonies.

Norway, however, declared its independence, adopted a constitution and chose a new king.

According to Mahabharata, Purana, Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga kingdom.

Claiming that Ælfgifu wanted to have a son by the king but was unable to, she secretly adopted the newborn children of strangers and pretended to have given birth to them.

Thus the king was never deified in the same way that Ptolemies and Seleucids were in Egypt and Asia respectively, and never adopted the custom of Proskynesis.

He adopted an independent tone in informing the imperial Exarch in Ravenna of his election, but wrote to Pepin the Younger that the Frankish alliance should be maintained unimpaired, being possibly forced to this course by the Lombard king Desiderius.

This style was adopted because the normal style for the widow of a king, " Queen Elizabeth ", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II.

The French obtained so little of what they fought for that they adopted the expressions Bête comme la paix (" Stupid as the peace ") and Travailler pour le roi de Prusse (" To work for the king of Prussia ", i. e. working for nothing ).

The French obtained so little of what they fought for that they adopted the expressions Bête comme la paix (" Stupid as the peace ") and Travailler pour le roi de Prusse (" To work for the king of Prussia ", i. e. working for nothing ).

The first Norwegian king to have adopted Christianity was, according to the sagas, Harald Fairhair's son, King Haakon the Good ( c. 934 – 961 ).