Minos

Family: Crete · Role: king · First appears: Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 5

Life events

• Skylla kills Nisos after Minos's gifts persuade her to steal his life-preserving lock.(Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 5 · 📍 Crete)
  • With: Skylla Nisos
  • “Skylla, with blood defiled. Who for the sake of foes a dear one slew, Won by the gold-chased bracelets brought from Crete, The gifts that Minos gave, And knowing not the end, Robbed Nisos of his lock of deathless life,”
• Theseus married Phaedra, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae.(Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 1)
  • With: Theseus Phaedra Pasiphae
  • “When his wife died, he married, for his second wife, Phædra, a Cretan, daughter of Minos, king of Crete, and Pasiphaë.”

Aeschylus, The Libation-Pourers — Scene 5

• with Skylla (Minos gave Skylla the bracelets that won her over.) “Won by the gold-chased bracelets brought from Crete, The gifts that Minos gave,”

Euripides, Hippolytus — Scene 1

• child: Phaedra (parent->child) “Phædra, a Cretan, daughter of Minos, king of Crete, and Pasiphaë.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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