Daedalus appears in person to offer thanks for his freedom, then leaves to ensure King Minos can do no more harm.

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.

The term Minotaur derives from the Ancient Greek, a compound of the name ( Minos ) and the noun " bull ", translated as "( the ) Bull of Minos ".

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

Rhadamanthus judged Asian souls, Aeacus judged European souls and Minos was the deciding vote and judge of the Greek.

In Greek mythology, Enarete () or Aenarete (, Ainarete ), daughter of Deimachus, was the wife of Aeolus and ancestress of the Aeolians .< ref > Enarete is the form found in the manuscripts of Bibliotheca 1. 7. 1, which takes to be a misspelling of Aenarete, the form written in the scholia to Plato, Minos 315c, since Enarete cannot stand in a hexameter line and the Bibliotheca < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s primary source at this point is the epic Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

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, King Minos dwelled in a palace at Knossos.

In Greek mythology, Phaedra ( Greek-Fedra ) is the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë, sister of Ariadne, wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.

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.

Some forms of Greek mythology associated the constellation with the tame white bull, in some versions Zeus in disguise, that seduced Europa and took her to Crete ( Minos ), whereas others associate it with the white bull that fathered the Minotaur.

Nisos, a king of Megara in Greek mythology, became a sea eagle or Osprey, to attack his daughter after she fell in love with Minos, king of Crete.

It was discovered in 1908 by Philibert Jacques Melotte and later named after the mythological Pasiphaë, wife of Minos and mother of the Minotaur from Greek legend.

A Jehovah's Witness, Minos Kokkinakis, won 3, 189, 500 drachmas ( US $ 10, 600 ) in damages from the Greek state after being arrested repeatedly for preaching his faith from door to door.

According to Greek mythology, Nisus, the king of Megara, was turned into a sparrowhawk after his daughter, Scylla, cut off his purple lock of hair to present to her lover ( and Nisus ' enemy ), Minos.

The earliest attested form of the word is the Mycenaean Greek ko-ri-ja-da-na ( written in Linear B syllabic script, reconstructed as koriadnon ), similar to the name of Minos ' daughter Ariadne, and it is plain how this might later evolve to koriannon or koriandron.

In Stephen Hero, an early version of what became Portrait, Stephen's surname is spelled " Daedalus " in more precise allusion to Daedalus, the architect in Greek myth who was contracted by King Minos to build the Labyrinth in which he would imprison his wife's son the Minotaur.

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Minos, after the Minos of Greek mythology.

For the Greeks, the bull was strongly linked to the Bull of Crete: Theseus of Athens had to capture the ancient sacred bull of Marathon ( the " Marathonian bull ") before he faced the Bull-man, the Minotaur ( Greek for " Bull of Minos "), whom the Greeks imagined as a man with the head of a bull at the center of the labyrinth.

Despite its scholarly subject and content, the work takes the form of a whimsical dialogue, principally between a mathematician named Minos ( taken from Minos, judge of the underworld in Greek mythology ) and a " devil's advocate " named Professor Niemand ( German for ' nobody ') who represents the " Modern Rivals " of the title.

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

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.

According to La Marle's reading of Linear A, which have been heavily criticised as arbitrary we should read mwi-nu ro-ja ( Minos the king ) on a Linear A tablet.

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.

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.

Asterios, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus.

When Minos ' son Androgeos had won the Panathenaeic Games the king, Aegeus, sent him to Marathon to fight a bull, resulting in the death of Androgeos.

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.

Minos justified his accession as king and prayed to Poseidon for a sign.

His brothers were Sarpedon and Minos ( also a king and later a judge of the dead ).

After fleeing to Minos, she helped cure the king of Minos of his genital sickness, and was given a dog whom no quarry could escape and an infallible javelin.

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

He was raised by the king Asterion and then, banished by Minos, his rival in love for the young Miletus or Atymnius, he sought refuge with his uncle, Cilix.

, " 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.

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 Cretan Bull which fathered the Minotaur was originally calm and sent from Poseidon, but king Minos whom it was sent to fell out of favor with Poseidon, and so in some versions of the story, Poseidon made the bull angry.

Its location was near Minos ' palace in Knossos.

The ruins of Minos ' palace at Knossos have been found, but the labyrinth has not.

The so-called " Ring of Minos " from Knossos.

It describes in detail how Apollo chose his first priests, whom he selected in their " swift ship "; they were " Cretans from Minos ' city of Knossos " who were voyaging to sandy Pylos.

Many of them were inscribed with Knosion or Knos on the obverse and an image of a Minotaur or Labyrinth on the reverse, both symbols deriving from the myth of King Minos, supposed to have reigned from Knossos.

Western civilization was thus predisposed by legend to associate whatever palace ruin should be found at Knossos with the legends of Minos and the labyrinth.

The very first name of the first man to excavate at Knossos, Minos Kalokairinos, was taken from the legend.

Icarus's father Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull.

However, the first undoubted Aegean remains reported from it were a few objects extracted from Knossos by Minos Kalokhairinos of Candia in 1878.

The historian Diodorus Siculus indicates that Phaistos, together with Knossos and Kydonia, are the three towns that were founded by the king Minos on Crete.

Intending to secure revenue in the Cyclades, Minos of Knossos established a navy with which he established his first colonies by taking control of the Hellenic sea and ruling over the Cyclades islands.

As early as the Middle Bronze Age, roughly the first half of the 2nd millennium BC, the eastern Mediterranean was dominated by a civilization named Minoan by its discoverer, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating the Palace of Knossos, which he termed the Palace of Minos.

Duncan Mackenzie: A Cautious Canny Highlander and the Palace of Minos at Knossos ( Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Supplement ; 72 ).

Minos: the title given to the rulers of Crete during the thousand year history of an advanced civilisation centred on the vast palace ( Labyrinth ) of Knossos.

Later in Crete he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly.

The palace of Knossos called the Palace of Minos is the most elaborate and ambitious of the three.