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Minos

In Greek mythology, a king of Crete, who demanded a yearly tribute of seven youths and seven girls from Athens for the Minotaur, the offspring of his wife Pasiphaë and a bull. After his death, he became a judge in Hades.

Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa, and his brothers were Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys, a fellow judge in Hades along with Aeacus, king of the Myrmidons. His children by Pasiphaë were Androgeos, Ariadne, and Phaedra, later wife of Theseus. He was drowned in boiling water by the daughters of King Cocalus of Sicily while pursuing the craftsman Daedalus.

Minos is only represented as a figure of evil in Attic legend, such as that of Theseus, possibly due to an old feud with Crete. It has been suggested that the name Minos may have been an official title of Cretan rulers at Knossos.



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For they say, that when Lycurgus ceased to be guardian to King Charilles he went abroad and spent a long time with his relations in Crete, for the Lycians are a colony of the Lacedaemonians; and those who first settled there adopted that body of laws which they found already established by the inhabitants; in like manner also those who now live near them have the very laws which Minos first drew up.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Some say, indeed, that this Talus was hammered out for King Minos by Vulcan himself, the skilfullest of all workers in metal.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
No sooner had Minos the fellow judge of Rhadamanthus said this, than Rhadamanthus rising up said:
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