The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice.

* 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.

The common tradition is that Minos waged war to avenge the death of his son and won.

There is a name in Minoan Linear A mi-nu-te that may be related to Minos.

La Marle suggests that the name mwi-nu ( Minos ) is expected to mean ' ascetic ' as Sanskrit muni, and fits this explanation to the legend about Minos sometimes living in caves on Crete.

On the Athenian stage Minos is a cruel tyrant, the heartless exactor of the tribute of Athenian youths to feed to the Minotaur.

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.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

These resulted in many godly and heroic offspring, including Athena, Apollo and Artemis, Hermes, Persephone ( by Demeter ), Dionysus, Perseus, Heracles, Helen of Troy, Minos, and the Muses ( by Mnemosyne ); by Hera, he is usually said to have fathered Ares, Hebe and Hephaestus.

In Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis, a character is talking to a judge of the dead, " Minos, or Rhadamanthus, or Persephone, or by ..."( 295 ).

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.

Talos is described by Greeks as either a gift from Hephaestus to Minos, forged with the aid of the Cyclopes in the form of a bull or a gift from Zeus to Europa.

In the Byzantine encyclopedia called the Suda, Talos is said, when the Sardinians did not wish to release him to Minos, to have heated himself – by jumping into a fire and to have clasped them in his embrace.

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.

However, the favoured account is that Sarpedon, brother of Minos, and Sarpedon, who fought at Troy, were different men who lived generations apart.

* The myth of how Cocalus orchestrated Minos ' death is shown in the fourth book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth, via a dream.

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 ).

Some scholars assert that the name of the king Minos who ruled in ancient Creta, ( Minoan civilization ) is derived from Menes just as the names Tsar and Kaiser are derived from Caesar.

Spratt followed the directions of Strabo, who said :" Of the three cities that were united under one metropolis by Minos, the third, which was Phaestus, was razed to the ground by the Gortynians ; it is sixty stadia distant from Gortyn, twenty from the sea, and forty from the seaport Matalum ; and the country is held by those who razed it.

As the FT reported, Antenna was founded by Mr Kyriakou ’ s father Minos in 1989 and it is now the largest Greek-language media company in the world with production companies, radio stations, magazines and television channels at home.

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.

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.

To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull from the sea, the Cretan Bull.

When King Minos had heard of what befell his son, he ordered the Cretan fleet to set sail for Athens.

, " 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.

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.

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.

Herodotus ( 1. 171 ) says that the Leleges were a people who in old times dwelt in the islands of the Aegean and were subject to Minos of Crete ( one of the historic references that led Sir Arthur Evans to name the pre-Hellenic Cretan culture " Minoan "); and that they were driven from their homes by the Dorians and Ionians, after which they took refuge in Caria and were named Carians.

The city falls and Scylla, lamenting Minos ' refusal to marry her, is taken prisoner on the Cretan ships which sail around Attica.

Soon after this, the Cretan ships come to Troizen to take away young boys and girls as tribute to Minos for the bull dancing in Crete.

Cretan tradition requires a new Minos to throw a ring into the sea, " marrying " it.

Lukos: a Cretan officer who commands a detachment of African warriors in the service of King Minos.

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.

* 2008 Minos and the Moderns: Cretan Myth in Twentieth-Century Literature and Art

In his recounting of the myth of the war between Minos and Aegeus, the king of Athens, the poet Ovid speaks of Gyaros as one island that refused to join the campaign of the Cretan king .< ref >

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.

Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur.

Instead, Minos kept it for himself ; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife Pasiphaë lust for the bull with the help of Aphrodite.

Since Minos controlled the land and sea routes, Daedalus set to work to fabricate wings for himself and his young son Icarus.

Minos, meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle.

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.

Minos, illustration by Gustave Doré for Dante Alighieri's Inferno ( Dante ) | Inferno.

Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an owl driving bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos ' palace.

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

Minos asked Aegeus for his son's assassins, and if they were to be handed to him, the town would be spared.

When they contended for the kingship of Crete, their native land, Minos drove Sarpedon and his people, the Termilae, into exile.

When the Pope's own Master of Ceremonies Biagio da Cesena said " it was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns ," Michelangelo worked da Cesena's semblance into the scene as Minos, judge of the underworld.

The Kuretes told Minos: " A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child.

Searching for the boy, Polyeidos saw an owl driving bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos ' palace.

While fleeing from Minos, who lusted after her, she cast herself into nets cast for a catch of fish.

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.

Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos ' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned.

Minos was, however, determined to find Daedalus, and he travelled from city to city offering a challenge: he presented a spiral seashell and asked for it to be strung all the way through.

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.