- Information
- king of Crete
- Son of
- 👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan) 👤 Zeus
- Father of
- 👤 Acacallis 👤 Androgeos 👤 Ariadne 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Chryses (s. of Minos) 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Euryale (m. of Orion) 👤 Eurymedon (Cretan) 👤 Euxanthios 👤 Glaucos (Cretan) 👤 Nephalion 👤 Phaidra 👤 Philolaos (s. of Minos) 👤 Xenodice (Cretan)
- Husband of
- 👤 Crete (d. of Asterios) 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan)
- Has children with
- 👤 Crete (d. of Asterios) 👤 Dexithea 👤 Itone 👤 Pareia 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan)
- Conceived at
- 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete)
- Born at
- 🌍 Crete (island)
- Founder of
- 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete)
- Ruler of
- 🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 Caria (Asia Minor) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 👥 the Leleges of Asia Minor
- Lawgiver at
- 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 the Underworld
- Kills
- 👤 Megareus (Megarian) 👤 Nisos (Megarian) 👤 Scylla (Megarian)
- Holds
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos)
- Dies at
- 🌍 Camicos (Sicily) 🌍 Inycos (Sicily) 🌍 Sicily (island)
- Killed by
- 👥 the Daughters of Cocalos
- Buried at
- 🏛️ the Tomb of Minos (Sicily)
- Has post-mortem existence at
- 🌍 the Underworld
- Body parts
- 🏺 the Bones of Minos
- Depictions
- 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Theseus (Athens)🖌️ Attic Red-Figure Oinochoe attributed to the Herakles Painter (JECM GV82; Beazley 5807; LIMC Pasiphae 32)
- Related Entities
- ⏳ the Funeral Games of Androgeos (Knossos) ⭐ Jupiter (planet)🌍 Amnisos (Crete) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Boiotia 🌍 Camicos (Sicily) 🌍 Caria (Asia Minor) 🌍 Ceos (island) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Cydonia (Crete) 🌍 Emathia (N. Greece) 🌍 Hyria (S. Italy) 🌍 Iapygia (Italy) 🌍 Iberia (W. Europe) 🌍 Inycos (Sicily) 🌍 Knossos (Crete) 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 🌍 Miletos (Asia Minor) 🌍 Minoa (island) 🌍 Mount Dicte (Western Crete) 🌍 Mount Ida (Crete) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Nisaia (Megarid) 🌍 Onchestos (Boiotia) 🌍 Paros (island) 🌍 Phaistos (Crete) 🌍 Phaleron (Attica) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 River Periphlegethon (Underworld) 🌍 Sardinia (island) 🌍 Scyllaion (Argolid) 🌍 Sicily (island) 🌍 Venetia (Italy) 🌍 the Elysian Fields 🌍 the Isles of the Blessed 🌍 the Sanctuary of Athena Lindia (Lindos) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Theseus (Athens)🌍 the Saronic Gulf 🌍 the Underworld 🏛️ the First Wall of Megara 🏛️ the Idaian Cave (Crete) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 🏛️ the Tomb of Minos (Sicily)🏺 the Bones of Minos🏺 the Replica Cow 🏺 the Ring of Minos🏺 the Silver Cup of Minos 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus🏺 the Wings of Daidalos 👤 Acacallis 👤 Amphitrite 👤 Androgeos 👤 Ariadne 👤 Aristaios 👤 Asterios (h. of Europe) 👤 Athena 👤 Atymnios (Cretan) 👤 Britomartis 👤 Catreus (eponym) 👤 Chryses (s. of Minos) 👤 Cocalos 👤 Crete (d. of Asterios) 👤 Daidalos 👤 Demeter 👤 Deucalion (Cretan) 👤 Dexithea 👤 Europe (Phoinician & Cretan) 👤 Euryale (m. of Orion) 👤 Eurymedon (Cretan) 👤 Eurystheus 👤 Euxanthios 👤 Glaucos (Cretan) 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Iapyx 👤 Iasion (s. of Electra) 👤 Icaros 👤 Laelaps (dog of Procris) 👤 Megareus (Megarian) 👤 Miletos (eponym) 👤 Naucrate 👤 Nephalion 👤 Nisos (Megarian) 👤 Orion (hunter) 👤 Pareia 👤 Pasiphae (Cretan) 👤 Periboia (Salamian) 👤 Phaidra 👤 Philolaos (s. of Minos) 👤 Poine 👤 Polyidos (Corinthian) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Procris (hunter) 👤 Rhadamanthys 👤 Sarpedon (Lycian) 👤 Scylla (Megarian) 👤 Sisyphos 👤 Talos (Athenian) 👤 Talos (Cretan I) 👤 Tantalos (Lydian) 👤 Tauros (rat. Bull of Poseidon) 👤 Tauros (rat. Minotaur) 👤 Theseus 👤 Tityos 👤 Xenodice (Cretan) 👤 Zeus 👤 the Bull of Poseidon 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 👤 the Chimaira 👤 the Cretan Bull 👤 the Minotaur 👥 the Charites 👥 the Couretes (guardians) 👥 the Daughters of Cocalos👥 the Earlier Athenian Tributes 👥 the Erinyes 👥 the Final Athenian Tribute 👥 the Leleges of Asia Minor
- Appears in
- 📜 Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo 388-439📜 Lindos Chronicle B4📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.12📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.13-1.14📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.15📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.17📜 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.8-1.9📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 1.9.26📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.4.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.9📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.2📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.3-3.1.4📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.4📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.10.3📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.1📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.7📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.8📜 Apollodoros, Library 3.3.1-3.3.2📜 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17📜 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 26📜 Bacchylides, Odes 1📜 Bacchylides fr. 10📜 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 183-224📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 12.397📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 18.590📜 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.145📜 Heracleitos, On Unbelievable Stories 7📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 155 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 89 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 90 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 91 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 92 Most📜 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 93 Most📜 Hesiod, Theogony 947-949📜 Hesiod fr. 244 Most📜 Homer, Iliad 13.442-13.454📜 Homer, Iliad 14.312-14.328📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.321-11.327📜 Homer, Odyssey 11.568-11.600📜 Homer, Odyssey 17.505-17.527📜 Homer, Odyssey 19.172-19.203📜 Lucian, A Conversation with Hesiod 8📜 Lucian, Anacharsis 39📜 Lucian, Astrology 20📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 24.1 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 25.1 MacLeod📜 Lucian, Menippus, or the Descent into Hades 11-13📜 Lucian, On Funerals 7-8📜 Lucian, The Dance 41📜 Ovid, Amores 3.10📜 Ovid, Ibis 289-290📜 Ovid, Ibis 509-510📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 12📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 2📜 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 26📜 Pausanias 1.1.2📜 Pausanias 1.1.4📜 Pausanias 1.17.3📜 Pausanias 1.19.4📜 Pausanias 1.27.9-1.27.10📜 Pausanias 1.39.5📜 Pausanias 1.41.3-1.41.6📜 Pausanias 1.42.1📜 Pausanias 1.44.3📜 Pausanias 10.17.3-10.17.4📜 Pausanias 2.30.3📜 Pausanias 2.34.7📜 Pausanias 3.2.4📜 Pausanias 7.2.5📜 Pausanias 7.3.7📜 Pausanias 7.4.5📜 Pausanias 7.4.6📜 Pausanias 8.53.4📜 Pausanias 8.53.8📜 Pausanias 9.11.4-9.11.5📜 Plutarch, Theseus 15.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 16.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 16.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 17.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 19.1📜 Plutarch, Theseus 19.2-19.3📜 Plutarch, Theseus 19.4-19.7📜 Strabo 10.4.12📜 Strabo 10.4.14📜 Strabo 10.4.19📜 Strabo 10.4.7📜 Strabo 10.4.8📜 Strabo 10.4.9📜 Strabo 12.8.5📜 Strabo 14.2.27📜 Strabo 16.2.38-16.2.39📜 Strabo 3.2.12-3.2.13📜 Strabo 6.2.6📜 Strabo 6.3.2📜 Strabo 6.3.6📜 Strabo 8.6.13
- Mentioned in Text
- Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo Lindos ChronicleApollodoros, EpitomeApollodoros, LibraryBacchylides, DithyrambsBacchylides, OdesBacchylidesCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisD-Scholia, IliadHeracleitos, On Unbelievable StoriesHesiod, EhoiaiHesiod, TheogonyHesiodHomer, IliadHomer, OdysseyLucian, A Conversation with HesiodLucian, AnacharsisLucian, AstrologyLucian, Dialogues of the DeadLucian, Menippus, or the Descent into HadesLucian, On FuneralsLucian, The DanceOvid, AmoresOvid, IbisPalaiphatos, On Unbelievable StoriesPausaniasPlutarch, TheseusStrabo