Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy. He reigned over Crete and the islands of the See more

On Cretan coins, Minos is represented as bearded, wearing a diadem, curly-haired, haughty, and dignified, like the traditional portraits of his … See more

• Minos, a dialogue attributed to Plato
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• Chinvat Bridge, the bridge of the dead in Persian cosmology
• Sraosha, Mithra and Rashnu, guardians and judges of souls … 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, … See more

Asterion, king of Crete, adopted the three sons of Zeus and Europa: Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthus. According to the Odyssey … See more

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

1. ^ Williams, Bernard (2001). "What Was Wrong with Minos? Thucydides and Historical Time". Representations. 74 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.1.
2. ^ Homer, Iliad 13.450; Odyssey 11.321.
3. ^ Thucydides, 1.4. See more