Pasiphae

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

Life events

Daedalus enabled Pasiphae to mate with Poseidon's bull using a wooden cow.(Apollodorus, Library 3.1)
- With: Daedalus
- “He constructed a wooden cow on wheels, took it, hollowed it out in the inside, sewed it up in the hide of a cow which he had skinned, and set it in the meadow in which the bull used to graze. Then he introduced Pasiphae into it; and the bull came and coupled with it, as if it were a real cow.”
Pasiphae gave birth to the Minotaur, whom Minos imprisoned in Daedalus's Labyrinth.(Apollodorus, Library 3.1 · 📍 Labyrinth)
- With: Asterius (Minotaur) Daedalus Minos
- “And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur. He had the face of a bull, but the rest of him was human; and Minos, in compliance with certain oracles, shut him up and guarded him in the Labyrinth.”

siblings with Aeetes “Aeetes, son of the Sun and of Perseis, and brother of Circe and Pasiphae”
siblings with Circe “brother of Circe and Pasiphae”

married with Minos “Minos, residing in Crete , passed laws, and married Pasiphae, daughter of the Sun and Perseis;”
parent: Perseis “Minos, residing in Crete , passed laws, and married Pasiphae, daughter of the Sun and Perseis;”
with Daedalus (accomplice) “In her love for the bull she found an accomplice in Daedalus, an architect, who had been banished from Athens for murder.”
child: Asterius (Minotaur) “And she gave birth to Asterius, who was called the Minotaur.”

with Poseidon (interaction) “Pasiphae having fallen in love with the bull of Poseidon”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.