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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support.

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

B. Cook, Minos and Minotaur are only different forms of the same personage, representing the sun-god of the Cretans, who depicted the sun as a bull.

E. Pottier, who does not dispute the historical personality of Minos, in view of the story of Phalaris, considers it probable that in Crete ( where a bull-cult may have existed by the side of that of the labrys ) victims were tortured by being shut up in the belly of a red-hot brazen bull.

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.

The labyrinth had been built by King Minos to hide the Minotaur, a half-man half-bull creature that was the offspring of Minos ' wife, Pasiphae, and a bull.

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.

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.

He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human ; and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.

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.

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.

The myth of Poseidon sending the bull ( which seduced Minos ' wife ) may simply be an earlier version of the myth of Zeus seducing Europa, as in earlier Mycenean times, Poseidon had significantly more importance than Zeus.

He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Heracles permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance, which Heracles denied because of pride, as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls.

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.

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

In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos ' wife, with zoophilia.

He tells Minos that Poseidon will send a sign.

Poseidon sent a magnificent bull, and Minos was proclaimed king.