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For the excavation popularly known as the Palace of Minos see Knossos
of Minos
In
Greek mythology,
Minos (in
Ancient Greek , genitive
) was a mythical king of Crete, son of
Zeus and Europa (mythology). After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in
Greek Underworld. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. By his wife, Pasiphaë, he fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion (disambiguation), Phaedra (mythology), Glaucus,
Catreus, Acacallis (mythology), and many others.
Minos, along with his brothers,
Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon, was raised by King
Asterion (or Asterius) of Crete. When Asterion died, he gave his throne to Minos, who banished Sarpedon and (according to some sources) Rhadamanthys too.
It is not clear if Minos is a name or if it was the Cretan word for "King". Scholars have noted the interesting similarity between
Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt,
Mannus of Germany,
Manu (Hinduism) of India, and so on. There is a name in Linear A
mi-nu-te that may be related to
Minos.
The literary Minos
Minos reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He lived at
Knossos for periods of nine years, at the end of which he retired into a sacred cave, where he received instruction from
Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island. This included the establishment of
Pederasty in ancient Greece as a means of population control on the island community:
“segregated the women and instituted sexual relations among the males so that women would not have children.”Aristotle,
Politics; II.10. He was the author of the Cretan constitution and the founder of its naval supremacyHerodotus 3.122; Thucydides 1.4)
In Attic tradition and on the Athens stage Minos is a cruel tyrant,Powell, Barry B.
Classical Myth. Second ed. With new translations of ancient texts by Herbert M. Howe. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998, p. 346. the heartless exactor of the tribute of Athenian youths to feed the Minotaur. It seems possible that tribute children were actually exacted to take part in the gruesome shows of the Minoan bull-rings, of which we now have more than one illustration.
To reconcile the contradictory aspects of his character, as well as to explain how Minos governed Crete over a period spanning so many generations, two kings of the name of Minos were assumed by later poets and mythologists. 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
Horace, Odes 4.7.21., alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus. The wife of this Minos ('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 , his successor as King of Crete. Lycastus had a son named Minos, after his grandfather, born by Lycastus's wife, Ida, daughter of Corybas. This second Minos - the 'bad' king Minos - is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather. It is to this Minos ('Minos II') that we owe the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisos. Unlike Minos I, Minos II fathered numerous children, including Androgeus, Catreus, Deucalion, Ariadne, Phaedra (mythology), and Glaucus - all born to him by his wife Pasiphaë. He was the grandfather of King Idomeneus, who led the Cretans to the Trojan War.Since relations with Phoenicia was in later times supposed to have played an important part in the development of Crete, Minos is sometimes called a Phoenician. There is no doubt that there is a considerable historical element in the legend; recent discoveries in Crete prove the existence of a civilization such as the legends imply, and render it possible that not only Athens, but Mycenae itself, was once subject to the kings of Knossos, of whom Minos was greatest, though this suggestion has been disputed and is no longer widely accepted. In view of the splendour and wide influence of Minoan Crete, the age generally known as "Mycenaean" has been given the name of "Minoan" by Dr.
Arthur Evans, the chief proponent of a powerful Minoan empire, as more properly descriptive
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. He was killed by the daughter of
Cocalus, king of
Agrigentum, who poured boiling water over him while he was taking a bath
Diodorus Siculus 4.79.. 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 earlier legend knows Minos as a beneficent ruler, legislator, and suppressor of piracyThucydides 1.4. His constitution was said to have formed the basis of that of Lycurgus Pausanias (geographer) 3. 2, 4.. In accordance with this, after his death he became judge of the shades in the under-world
Odyssey, 9.568.. In later versions, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus were made judges as well, with Minos leading as the "appeals court" judge
Plato,
Gorgias (dialogue); 524.
The solar explanation of Minos as the sun-god has been thrown into the background by the recent discoveries. In any case a divine origin would naturally be claimed for him as a priest-king, and a divine atmosphere hangs about him. The name of his wife, Pasiphae ("the all-shining"), is an epithet of the moon-goddess. The name Minos seems to be philologically the equivalent of Minyas (mythology) , the royal ancestor of the Minyans of Orchomenus, and his daughter Ariadne ("the exceeding holy") is a double of the native nature-goddess.
The mythological Minos
Miletus
Asterios, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus. In adulthood, the three brothers quarreled over a beautiful boy they were all in love with, by the name of
Miletus (mythology), son of Apollo and Areia. The youth however preferred Sarpedon, so Minos in revenge went to war and conquered the whole island. Sarpedon and Miletus escaped to Lycia, where Miletus founded the city that bore his name. Other mythographers claimed that the beloved youth's name was Atymnios, and that he was the son of Zeus and
Cassiopeia (mythology).Apollodorus III.1.2.
Bernard Sergent claims that the story is a late invention in that the theme of competition for a beloved youth is not in keeping with the Cretan pederastic tradition, and there is no record of this Miletus prior to the second century BCE.
Glaucus
One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared. His parents went to the
oracle at
Delphi who told them "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child."
They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black. Polyidus observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the
mulberry (or possibly the
blackberry) plant and Minos sent him to find Glaucus.
Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an owl driving
bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside the wine-cellar was a cask of
honey, with Glaucus dead inside. Minos demanded Glaucus be brought back to life, though Polyidus objected. Minos was justified in his insistence, as the Delphic Oracle had said that the seer would restore the child alive. Minos shut Polyidus up in the wine-cellar with a sword. When a snake appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it with the sword. Another snake came for the first, and after seeing its mate dead, the second serpent left and brought back an
herb which then brought the first snake back to life. Following this example, Polyidus used the same herb to resurrect Glaucus.
Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of divination. Polyidus did so, but then, at the last second before leaving, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so, and forgot everything he had been taught.
Poseidon, Daedalus and Pasiphaë
Minos was challenged as king and prayed to
Poseidon for help. Poseidon sent a giant white bull out of the sea. Minos planned on sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided not to. He substituted a different bull. In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, with
zoophilia. Daedalus built her a wooden cow, which she hid inside. The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, the Minotaur(half man half bull). Daedalus then built a complicated maze called the Labyrinth and Minos put the Minotaur in it. 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 (mythology), along with the monster. Fortunately, both Daedalus and Icarus escaped the Labyrinth and the Minotaur's clutches, but they were marooning on Crete.
Daedalus and Icarus flew away on wings Daedalus invented, but Icarus' wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. Icarus fell in the sea and drowned.
Theseus
Some time later, Minos' son, Androgeus, won every game in a contest to
Aegeas of
Athens. Alternatively, the other contestants were jealous of Androgeus and killed him. Minos was angry and declared war on Athens. He offered the Athenians peace if they sent Minos seven young men and seven virgin maidens to feed the
Minotaur every nine years (which corresponded directly to the Minoans' meticulous records of lunar alignments - a full moon falls on the equinoxes once every eight years). This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos' lovestruck daughter.
Athenaeus (c. AD 200), in his Deipnosophists, (XIII.601f), recounts a version of the tale in which the love of Minos for Theseus is the reason for his giving up his war against the Athenians.
falling in love with Minos
Nisus
Minos was also part of the King
Nisos story. Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of purple hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of purple hair. His daughter,
Scylla (princess), fell in love with Minos and proved it by cutting the purple hair off her father's head. Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete. Minos killed Scylla for disobeying her father. She was changed into a seabird, relentlessly pursued by her father, who was a sea eagle.
The death of Minos
Minos searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle. Minos presented a spiral seashell to Daedalus and asked for it to be strung all the way through. When he reached Camicus, Sicily) King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, fetched the old man. He tied the string to an ant, which walked through the seashell, stringing it all the way through. Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over. Cocalus managed to convince him to take a bath first. Cocalus' daughters and Daedalus then killed Minos by burning him with boiling water.
After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in
Greek Underworld together with
Aeacus and
Radamanthus. Radamanthus judged the souls of Asians, Aeacus judged
Europeans and Minos had the deciding vote.
Minos in art
On Cretan coins, Minos is represented as bearded, wearing a diadem (personal wear), curly-haired, haughty and dignified, like the traditional portraits of his reputed father, Zeus. On painted vases and sarcophagus bas-reliefs he frequently occurs with Aeacus and Rhadamanthus as judges of the under-world and in connection with the Minotaur and Theseus.
In Michelangelo's famous
fresco,
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) (located in the Sistine Chapel), Minos appears as judge of the under-world, surrounded by a crowd of devils. With a snake coiled around him, Minos watches as the damned are brought down to hell.
In poetry
In the Aeneid of
Virgil, Minos was the judge of those who had been given the death penalty on a false charge - Minos sits with a gigantic urn, and decides whether a soul should go to
Elysium or
Tartarus with the help of a silent jury. Radamanthus, his brother, is a judge at Tartarus who decides upon suitable punishments for sinners there
Aeneid VI, 568–572)..
In
Dante's
The Divine Comedy, Minos sits at the entrance to the second circle in the
Inferno, which is the beginning of proper Hell. Here, he judges the sins of each soul and assigns it to its rightful punishment by indicating the circle to which it must descend. He does this by circling his tail around his body the appropriate number of times. He can also speak, to clarify the soul's location within the circle indicated by the wrapping of his tail.
Inferno V, 4–24; XXVII, 124–127).
References
See also
For the excavation popularly known as the Palace of Minos see Knossos
of Minos
In
Greek mythology,
Minos (in Ancient Greek
,
genitive ) was a mythical king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa (mythology). After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Greek Underworld. The Minoan civilization has been named after him. By his wife, Pasiphaë, he fathered Ariadne,
Androgeus, Deucalion (disambiguation),
Phaedra (mythology),
Glaucus,
Catreus,
Acacallis (mythology), and many others.
Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthys and
Sarpedon, was raised by King Asterion (or Asterius) of Crete. When Asterion died, he gave his throne to Minos, who banished Sarpedon and (according to some sources) Rhadamanthys too.
It is not clear if Minos is a name or if it was the Cretan word for "King". Scholars have noted the interesting similarity between
Minos and the names of other ancient founder-kings, such as Menes of Egypt, Mannus of Germany, Manu (Hinduism) of India, and so on. There is a name in
Linear A mi-nu-te that may be related to
Minos.
The literary Minos
Minos reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He lived at Knossos for periods of nine years, at the end of which he retired into a sacred cave, where he received instruction from
Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island. This included the establishment of
Pederasty in ancient Greece as a means of population control on the island community:
“segregated the women and instituted sexual relations among the males so that women would not have children.”Aristotle,
Politics; II.10. He was the author of the Cretan constitution and the founder of its naval supremacy
Herodotus 3.122;
Thucydides 1.4)
In Attic tradition and on the Athens stage Minos is a cruel
tyrant,Powell, Barry B.
Classical Myth. Second ed. With new translations of ancient texts by Herbert M. Howe. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1998, p. 346. the heartless exactor of the tribute of Athenian youths to feed the Minotaur. It seems possible that tribute children were actually exacted to take part in the gruesome shows of the Minoan bull-rings, of which we now have more than one illustration.
To reconcile the contradictory aspects of his character, as well as to explain how Minos governed Crete over a period spanning so many generations, two kings of the name of Minos were assumed by later poets and mythologists. 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
Horace, Odes 4.7.21., alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus. The wife of this Minos ('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 , his successor as King of Crete. Lycastus had a son named Minos, after his grandfather, born by Lycastus's wife, Ida, daughter of Corybas. This second Minos - the 'bad' king Minos - is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather. It is to this Minos ('Minos II') that we owe the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisos. Unlike Minos I, Minos II fathered numerous children, including Androgeus, Catreus, Deucalion, Ariadne, Phaedra (mythology), and Glaucus - all born to him by his wife Pasiphaë. He was the grandfather of King Idomeneus, who led the Cretans to the Trojan War.Since relations with Phoenicia was in later times supposed to have played an important part in the development of Crete, Minos is sometimes called a Phoenician. There is no doubt that there is a considerable historical element in the legend; recent discoveries in Crete prove the existence of a civilization such as the legends imply, and render it possible that not only Athens, but
Mycenae itself, was once subject to the kings of Knossos, of whom Minos was greatest, though this suggestion has been disputed and is no longer widely accepted. In view of the splendour and wide influence of Minoan Crete, the age generally known as "Mycenaean" has been given the name of "Minoan" by Dr.
Arthur Evans, the chief proponent of a powerful Minoan empire, as more properly descriptive
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. He was killed by the daughter of
Cocalus, king of Agrigentum, who poured boiling water over him while he was taking a bathDiodorus Siculus 4.79.. 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 earlier legend knows Minos as a beneficent ruler, legislator, and suppressor of piracyThucydides 1.4. His constitution was said to have formed the basis of that of Lycurgus Pausanias (geographer) 3. 2, 4.. In accordance with this, after his death he became judge of the shades in the under-world
Odyssey, 9.568.. In later versions,
Aeacus and Rhadamanthus were made judges as well, with Minos leading as the "appeals court" judge
Plato,
Gorgias (dialogue); 524.
The solar explanation of Minos as the sun-god has been thrown into the background by the recent discoveries. In any case a divine origin would naturally be claimed for him as a priest-king, and a divine atmosphere hangs about him. The name of his wife, Pasiphae ("the all-shining"), is an epithet of the moon-goddess. The name Minos seems to be philologically the equivalent of Minyas (mythology) , the royal ancestor of the
Minyans of
Orchomenus, and his daughter Ariadne ("the exceeding holy") is a double of the native nature-goddess.
The mythological Minos
Miletus
Asterios, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthus. In adulthood, the three brothers quarreled over a beautiful boy they were all in love with, by the name of Miletus (mythology), son of Apollo and Areia. The youth however preferred Sarpedon, so Minos in revenge went to war and conquered the whole island. Sarpedon and Miletus escaped to
Lycia, where Miletus founded the city that bore his name. Other mythographers claimed that the beloved youth's name was Atymnios, and that he was the son of Zeus and
Cassiopeia (mythology).Apollodorus III.1.2.
Bernard Sergent claims that the story is a late invention in that the theme of competition for a beloved youth is not in keeping with the Cretan pederastic tradition, and there is no record of this Miletus prior to the second century BCE.
Glaucus
One day, Glaucus was playing with a ball or mouse and suddenly disappeared. His parents went to the oracle at
Delphi who told them "A marvelous creature has been born amongst you: whoever finds the true likeness for this creature will also find the child."
They interpreted this to refer to a newborn calf in Minos' herd. Three times a day, the calf changed color from white to red to black.
Polyidus observed the similarity to the ripening of the fruit of the mulberry (or possibly the blackberry) plant and Minos sent him to find Glaucus.
Searching for the boy, Polyidus saw an owl driving bees away from a wine-cellar in Minos' palace. Inside the wine-cellar was a cask of honey, with Glaucus dead inside. Minos demanded Glaucus be brought back to life, though Polyidus objected. Minos was justified in his insistence, as the Delphic Oracle had said that the seer would restore the child alive. Minos shut Polyidus up in the wine-cellar with a sword. When a snake appeared nearby, Polyidus killed it with the sword. Another snake came for the first, and after seeing its mate dead, the second serpent left and brought back an herb which then brought the first snake back to life. Following this example, Polyidus used the same herb to resurrect Glaucus.
Minos refused to let Polyidus leave Crete until he taught Glaucus the art of
divination. Polyidus did so, but then, at the last second before leaving, he asked Glaucus to spit in his mouth. Glaucus did so, and forgot everything he had been taught.
Poseidon, Daedalus and Pasiphaë
Minos was challenged as king and prayed to Poseidon for help. Poseidon sent a giant white bull out of the sea. Minos planned on sacrificing the bull to Poseidon, but then decided not to. He substituted a different bull. In rage, Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, with
zoophilia. Daedalus built her a wooden cow, which she hid inside. The bull mated with the wooden cow and Pasiphaë was impregnated by the bull, giving birth to a horrible monster, the Minotaur(half man half bull). Daedalus then built a complicated
maze called the
Labyrinth and Minos put the Minotaur in it. 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 (mythology), along with the monster. Fortunately, both Daedalus and Icarus escaped the Labyrinth and the Minotaur's clutches, but they were
marooning on Crete.
Daedalus and Icarus flew away on wings Daedalus invented, but Icarus' wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. Icarus fell in the sea and drowned.
Theseus
Some time later, Minos' son,
Androgeus, won every game in a contest to Aegeas of Athens. Alternatively, the other contestants were jealous of Androgeus and killed him. Minos was angry and declared war on Athens. He offered the Athenians peace if they sent Minos seven young men and seven virgin maidens to feed the
Minotaur every nine years (which corresponded directly to the Minoans' meticulous records of lunar alignments - a full moon falls on the equinoxes once every eight years). This continued until Theseus killed the Minotaur with the help of Ariadne, Minos' lovestruck daughter.
Athenaeus (c. AD 200), in his Deipnosophists, (XIII.601f), recounts a version of the tale in which the love of Minos for Theseus is the reason for his giving up his war against the Athenians.
falling in love with Minos
Nisus
Minos was also part of the King Nisos story. Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of purple hair still existed, hidden in his white hair. Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of purple hair. His daughter, Scylla (princess), fell in love with Minos and proved it by cutting the purple hair off her father's head. Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete. Minos killed Scylla for disobeying her father. She was changed into a seabird, relentlessly pursued by her father, who was a sea eagle.
The death of Minos
Minos searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle. Minos presented a spiral seashell to Daedalus and asked for it to be strung all the way through. When he reached Camicus, Sicily) King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, fetched the old man. He tied the string to an ant, which walked through the seashell, stringing it all the way through. Minos then knew Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and demanded he be handed over. Cocalus managed to convince him to take a bath first. Cocalus' daughters and Daedalus then killed Minos by burning him with boiling water.
After his death, Minos became a judge of the dead in Greek Underworld together with
Aeacus and
Radamanthus. Radamanthus judged the souls of Asians, Aeacus judged
Europeans and Minos had the deciding vote.
Minos in art
On Cretan coins, Minos is represented as bearded, wearing a
diadem (personal wear), curly-haired, haughty and dignified, like the traditional portraits of his reputed father, Zeus. On painted vases and sarcophagus bas-reliefs he frequently occurs with Aeacus and Rhadamanthus as judges of the under-world and in connection with the Minotaur and Theseus.
In Michelangelo's famous fresco, The Last Judgment (Michelangelo) (located in the
Sistine Chapel), Minos appears as judge of the under-world, surrounded by a crowd of devils. With a snake coiled around him, Minos watches as the damned are brought down to hell.
In poetry
In the
Aeneid of
Virgil, Minos was the judge of those who had been given the death penalty on a false charge - Minos sits with a gigantic urn, and decides whether a soul should go to
Elysium or
Tartarus with the help of a silent jury. Radamanthus, his brother, is a judge at Tartarus who decides upon suitable punishments for sinners there
Aeneid VI, 568–572)..
In
Dante's
The Divine Comedy, Minos sits at the entrance to the second circle in the
Inferno, which is the beginning of proper Hell. Here, he judges the sins of each soul and assigns it to its rightful punishment by indicating the circle to which it must descend. He does this by circling his tail around his body the appropriate number of times. He can also speak, to clarify the soul's location within the circle indicated by the wrapping of his tail.
Inferno V, 4–24; XXVII, 124–127).
References
See also
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MINOS
A free 3D solid modelling software offering fast hidden line removal, topological functions, 3D geometric constructions, IGES support, shading, printing, hatches, and line ...
Thomson Holidays - Hotel Minos Beach
Holidays at the Hotel Minos Beach, Agios Nikolaos with Thomson ... An exquisite traditional hotel, the Minos Beach is set back from the main road in beautiful gardens, occupying a ...
