Minos

First appears: The Astronomy

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Europa bore Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys to Zeus on Crete. In Fragments 61–80, Androgeos is named as Minos’s son.

Relationship record

Life events

• Europa bore Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys to Zeus.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20 · 📍 Crete)
  • With: Europa Zeus Sarpedon Rhadamanthys
  • “There she conceived and bore three sons, Minos, Sarpedon and Rhadamanthys.”

The Astronomy

• child: Euryale “Hesiod says that he was the son of Euryale, the daughter of Minos, and of Poseidon, and that there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon the waves as though upon land.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 1–20

• parent: Zeus “So she bare sons to the almighty Son of Cronos, glorious leaders of wealthy men—Minos the ruler, and just Rhadamanthys and noble Sarpedon the blameless and strong.”
• parent: Europa “So she bare sons to the almighty Son of Cronos, glorious leaders of wealthy men—Minos the ruler, and just Rhadamanthys and noble Sarpedon the blameless and strong.”
• siblings with Rhadamanthys “So she bare sons to the almighty Son of Cronos, glorious leaders of wealthy men—Minos the ruler, and just Rhadamanthys and noble Sarpedon the blameless and strong.”
• siblings with Sarpedon “So she bare sons to the almighty Son of Cronos, glorious leaders of wealthy men—Minos the ruler, and just Rhadamanthys and noble Sarpedon the blameless and strong.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• child: Androgeos “Androgeos the son of Minos was called Eurygyes”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.