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 was committed to sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided to substitute a different bull.

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.

Perhaps the closest figure in Western mythology to the modern mad scientist was Daedalus, creator of the labyrinth, who was then imprisoned by King Minos.

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.

Minos then knew Daedalus was sheltering in the court of Cocalus, and demanded that he be handed over.

Cocalus managed to convince him to take a bath first, and Cocalus ' daughters then killed Minos.

Theseus then went to Crete where he killed the Minotaur with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.

They will then work to create the world into a home for Minos.

Cruel King Minos of Crete asked Daedalus to design a maze to imprison the creature known as the Minotaur, then locked Daedalus and his son inside the labyrinth to make sure only he knows the secrets it hides.

The gnat goes on to describe famous Roman heroes and then his audience before Minos to decide his fate.

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

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.

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

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 some versions, Daedalus himself poured boiling water on Minos and killed him.

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.

Minos, after getting advice from the oracle at Delphi, had Daedalus construct a gigantic labyrinth to hold the Minotaur.

It would be to this Minos that we owe the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisus.

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.

On his arrival in Crete, Ariadne, King Minos ' daughter, fell in love with Theseus and, on the advice of Daedalus, gave him a ball of thread.

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.

Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos ' daughter, Ariadne, a clew ( or ball of string ) in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.

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.

In Act 5, Scene 6, Henry's references to Daedalus and Icarus are absent ; " I Daedalus, my poor boy Icarus ,/ Thy father Minos that denied our course ,/ The sun that seared the wings of my sweet boy / Thy brother Edward, and thyself the sea / Whose envious gulf did swallow up his life " ( ll. 21 – 25 ).

Minos was angry and declared war on Athens.

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.

In Crete, the Minotaur was known by its proper name, Asterion, a name shared with Minos ' foster-father.

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

When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos who banished Sarpedon and, according to some sources, Rhadamanthys too.

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.

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.

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.

The Minotaur was defeated by the hero Theseus with the help of Minos ' daughter Ariadne.

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.