Minos

deity earth Greek single tradition · 6

Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1393 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.

↻ synthesized from 6 sources

When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Myth recorded in ancient Greek literature.

Relationships

consort of
Pasiphaë
enemy of
Aegeus, Britomartis
child of
Zeus, Europa
allied with
Aeacus

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Sources

Source passages

“Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete and son of Zeus and Europa, and of Pasiphaë, Minos's queen”

#27684 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Ariadne is the daughter of Minos, king of Crete, in Greek mythology.”

#45788 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free

“King Minos of Crete fought a war with King Aegeus of Athens, who had killed Minos' baby son and carried away his baby daughter.”

#45873 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“her father is likely to choose for her... fair-haired daughter of Minos by a Thracian captive-woman...”

#45930 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“Mark Irons as Minos”

#45957 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free