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Minos
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250 px|thumb|Gustave Doré's illustration of King Minos for [[Dante Alighieri's Inferno]] thumb|Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens
Minos is a figure from ancient Greek mythology, most famously known as a king of Crete who appears in stories about the Minotaur and the labyrinth. He remains culturally significant as a symbol of authority and judgment in classical literature, including Dante's Inferno, and continues to be depicted in modern artistic and academic representations.
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- Literary Minos
- Later rationalization
- Family
- Mythological Minos
- Glaucus
- Poseidon, Daedalus and Pasiphaë
- Theseus
- Nisus
- Death
- Minos in art
- In poetry
- Astronomy
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250 px|thumb|Gustave Doré's illustration of King Minos for [[Dante Alighieri's Inferno]] thumb|Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens
In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/ ; , [mǐːnɔːs]) was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur. After his death, King Minos became a judge of the dead in the underworld alongside Rhadamanthus and Aeacus.
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