Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Thucydides tells us … See more

By his wife, Pasiphaë (or some say Crete), and daughter of the Sun (Helios), and mother of the Minotaur. He fathered Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Catreus, Acacallis, and Xenodice. By a … See more

Asterion, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa: Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthus. According to the Odyssey (Book XIX l. 203, as interpreted by Plato in Laws 624), Minos consulted … See more

On Cretan coins, Minos is represented as bearded, wearing a diadem, curly-haired, haughty, and dignified, like the traditional portraits of his reputed father, Zeus. He frequently occurs on painted vases and sarcophag… See more

Minor planet 6239 Minos, is named after Minos. With its orbit relatively close to earth's, it is deemed as a potentially hazardous asteroid. See more

• Minos, a dialogue attributed to Plato
• Menes a pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period of ancient Egypt
• Chinvat Bridge, the bridge of the dead in Persian cosmology… See more