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Minos

noun
1.
Son of Zeus and Europa; king of ancient Crete; ordered Daedalus to build the labyrinth; after death Minos became a judge in the underworld.



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... ants upon it into human beings (Ovid, Met. vii. 520), who were called Myrmidones (murmekes ants) . Aeacus ruled over his people with such justice and impartiality that after his death he was made judge of the lower world together with Minos and Rhadamanthus. By his wife Endeis he was the father of Telamon and Peleus. His successful prayer to Zeus for rain at a time of drought (Isocrates, Evagoras, 14) was commemorated by a temple at Aegina (Pausanias ii. 29). ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia


Words linked to "Minos" :   Greek deity, Minoan


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