Minos

Minos was a Greek demigod son of Zeus and the mortal princess Europa. He was the manipulative, vengeful king of Crete. After his death, Minos along with his brothers, Aeacus and Rhadamanthus, became Judges of the Dead.
==History==
Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon, was raised by King Asterion of Crete. When Asterion died, his throne was claimed by Minos, who banished his brothers. Minos reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He constructed a palace at Knossos, where for a period of nine years, he received instruction from his father, Zeus, in the legislation in which he gave to the island. He was the author of the Cretan constitution and the founder of its naval supremacy.
In Attic tradition and on the Athenian stage, Minos is depicted as a cruel tyrant, the heartless exactor of the tribute of Athenian youths to feed the Minotaur.
Minos took Pasiphaë, daughter of the sun god Helios, as his wife and queen. With her, he fathered four sons, Catreus, Androgeus, Deucalion, and Glaucus, and four daughters, Acalle, Ariadne, Xenodice and Phaedra. By Deucalion, he was the grandfather of Idomeneus, who led the Cretans during the Trojan War.
When his son Androgeos had won the Panathenaeic Games, the king, Aegeus, sent him to Marathon to fight a bull, resulting in the death of Androgeos. Outraged, Minos went to Athens to avenge his son, and on the way he camped at Megara. The king there at the time was Nisos (one of Aegeus' brothers), and his strength came from his hair. His daughter, Scylla, fell in love with Minos and cut off her father's purple hair so Minos could conquer the city. After his triumph, he punished Scylla for her treachery against her father by tying her to a boat and dragging her until she drowned. On arriving in Attica, he asked Zeus to punish the city, and the god struck it with plague and hunger. An oracle told the Athenians to meet any of Minos' demands if they wanted to escape further punishment. Minos then demanded Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.
===Death===
Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the Labyrinth. He was killed by the daughters of Cocalus, king of Agrigentum, who poured boiling water over him while he was taking a bath. Subsequently, his remains were sent back to the Cretans, who placed them in a sarcophagus, on which was inscribed: "The tomb of Minos, the son of Zeus." Upon his death, Minos was succeeded by his eldest son, Catreus, though he and his son, Althaimenes, died soon afterwards and the throne of Crete passed onto Minos' only surviving son, Deucalion.
The earlier legend knows Minos as a beneficent ruler, legislator, and suppressor of piracy. His constitution was said to have formed the basis of that of Lycurgus for Sparta. In accordance with this, after his death he was appointed as one of the judge of the dead in the Underworld.
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