Cretan Genealogy — Minor Figures

4 figures from Pausanias' Description of Greece who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Catreus

son of Minos · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 53

Book 8 · Chapter 53 · parent: Minos “Catreus was the son of Minos”

Rhadamanthus

son of Hephæstus · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 53

Book 8 · Chapter 53 · child: Gortys “Gortys the son of Rhadamanthus.”
Book 8 · Chapter 53 · parent: Hephæstus “Cinæthon in his verses represents Rhadamanthus as the son of Hephæstus”

Talos

son of Cres · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 53

Book 8 · Chapter 53 · child: Hephæstus “and Hephæstus as the son of Talos”
Book 8 · Chapter 53 · parent: Cres “and Talos as the son of Cres.”

Cres

ancestor · first appears Book 8 · Chapter 53

Book 8 · Chapter 53 · child: Talos “and Talos as the son of Cres.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.