Minos

Family: Cretan · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · §167–173

Life events

• Minos defeated Sarpedon in a struggle over the kingdom and drove him and his supporters out of Crete.(Book 1 · §167–173 · 📍 Crete)
  • With: Sarpedon
  • “Minos having got the better in the strife of parties drove out both Sarpedon himself and those of his party”
• The Cretans consulted the oracle and were told not to assist Hellas because of Minos’s anger.(Book 7 · §163–169 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Cretines Menelaos
  • “they joined together and sent men to inquire of the god at Delphi whether it would be better for them if they gave assistance to Hellas”
• Minos died violently in Sicania while searching for Daidalos.(Book 7 · §170–176 · 📍 Sicania)
  • With: Daidalos
  • “Minos, having come to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in search of Daidalos, died there by a violent death”
• The Cretans besieged Camicos for seven years but departed without capturing it.(Book 7 · §170–176 · 📍 Camicos)
  • “the Cretans, urged thereto by a god, all except the men of Polichne and Praisos, came with a great armament to Sicania and besieged for seven years the city of Camicos”
• Shipwrecked Cretans founded Hyria and settled on the mainland as Messapians of Iapygia.(Book 7 · §170–176 · 📍 Hyria)
  • “their vessels being dashed to pieces, they, since they saw no longer any way of coming to Crete, founded there the city of Hyria; and there they stayed and were changed so that they became instead of Cretans, Messapians of Iapygia, and instead of islanders, dwellers on the mainland”
• The Cretans joined the Greeks who came to assist Menelaos in the Trojan war.(Book 7 · §170–176 · 📍 Crete)
  • “in the next generation but one after the death of Minos came the Trojan war, in which the Cretans proved not the most contemptible of those who came to assist Menelaos”
• Famine and pestilence stripped Crete of its inhabitants for the second time.(Book 7 · §170–176 · 📍 Crete)
  • “Then after this, when they had returned home from Troy, famine and pestilence came upon both the men and their cattle, until at last Crete was stripped of its inhabitants for the second time”

Book 1 · §167–173

• parent: Europa “the sons of Europa, Sarpedon and Minos”
• siblings with Sarpedon “the sons of Europa, Sarpedon and Minos”
• with Sarpedon (interaction) “Minos having got the better in the strife of parties drove out both Sarpedon himself and those of his party”

Book 7 · §163–169

• with Menelaos (interaction) “because of the assistance that ye gave to Menelaos”

Book 7 · §170–176

• with Daidalos (Minos searched for Daidalos.) “Minos, having come to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in search of Daidalos, died there by a violent death;”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.