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Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by king Asterion ( or Asterius ) of Crete.
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After his death, Aeacus became ( along with the Cretan brothers Rhadamanthus and Minos ) one of the three judges in Hades, and according to Plato especially for the shades of Europeans.
To make sure no one would ever know the secret of who the Minotaur was and how to get out of the Labyrinth ( Daedalus knew both of these things ), Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, along with the monster.
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This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos ' daughter.
Instead, Minos kept it for himself ; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite.
* In the Dante's Inferno video game, Limbo is portrayed as a chaotic landscape watched over by Minos and inhabited by unbaptized infants with sickles for hands.
In Crete, the Minotaur was known by its proper name, Asterion, a name shared with Minos ' foster-father.
After he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers to rule.
To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.
In Crete, both Minos ' daughters, Ariadne and Phaedra fell madly in love with Theseus.
Some scholars see a connection between Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, and Manu of India, and even with Meon of Phrygia and Lydia ( after him named Maeonia ), Mizraim of Egypt in the Book of Genesis and the Canaanite deity Baal Meon.
17th-century engraving of Scylla ( princess ) | Scylla falling in love with Minos
In later versions, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus were made judges as well, with Minos leading as the " appeals court " judge.
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.
The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.
Minos shut Polyidus up in the wine-cellar with a sword.
In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, with zoophilia.
Daedalus then built a complicated " chamber that with its tangled windings perplexed the outward way " called the Labyrinth, and Minos put the Minotaur in it.
The author of Bibliotheke ( 3. 197-198 ) records the fidelity charm she placed upon Minos, who would ejaculate serpents and scorpions, killing any unlawful concubine ; but Procris, with a protective herb, lay with Minos with impunity.
Minos and brothers
Her brothers were Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece and Perses, and her sister was Pasiphaë, the wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur.
His brothers were Sarpedon and Minos ( also a king and later a judge of the dead ).
When he died, Asterion gave his kingdom to Minos, who promptly " banished " his brothers after quarrelling with them.
Minos and Rhadamanthys
When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos who banished Sarpedon and, according to some sources, Rhadamanthys too.
According to this view, the first King Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon.
This was the ' good ' king Minos, and he was held in such esteem by the Olympian gods that, after he died, he was made one of the three ' Judges of the Dead ', alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus.
In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys ' brother ; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos ' grandson and namesake, who features in the Theseus legend, and was rescued by Dionysus.
The first Sarpedon was a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother to Minos and Rhadamanthys.
Following this affair three children were born, Minos, Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, who became the kings of the three Minoan Palaces in Crete.
Minos and Sarpedon
Asterios, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus.
According to Herodotus, Europa had ( at least ) two sons, Sarpedon and Minos.
When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos drove Sarpedon and his people, the Termilae, into exile.
However, the favoured account is that Sarpedon, brother of Minos, and Sarpedon, who fought at Troy, were different men who lived generations apart.
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.
:* Amynthes, 45 years ; birth of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon ( 1445 BC )
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Minos was angry and declared war on Athens.
Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over.
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.
He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete.
Its location was near Minos ' palace in Knossos.
It may also be that this priest was son to Minos.
In Greek mythology, Minos (, Minōs ) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa.
Minos is the Cretan word for " king ", or indeed, to take a euhemerist position, the name of a particular king that was subsequently used as a title.
Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.
The wife of this ' Minos I ' was said to be Itone ( daughter of Lyctius ) or Crete ( a nymph or daughter of his stepfather Asterion ), and he had a single son named Lycastus, his successor as King of Crete.
This ' Minos II '— the ' bad ' king Minos — is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather.
Subsequently his remains were sent back to the Cretans, who placed them in a sarcophagus, on which was inscribed: " The tomb of Minos, the son of Zeus.
Minos was committed to sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided to substitute a different bull.
Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.
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