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Minos justified his accession as king and prayed to Poseidon for a sign. Poseidon sent a giant white bull out of the sea. [20] Minos was committed to sacrificing the bull to Poseidon [21] but then decided to substitute a different bull. Poseidon cursed Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, in rage, with a mad passion for the bull. Daedalus built her a wooden ...
Pasiphaë was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete. With Minos, she was the mother of Acacallis , Ariadne , Androgeus , Glaucus , Deucalion , [ 17 ] Phaedra , Xenodice , and Catreus . After having sex with the Cretan Bull, she gave birth to the "star-like" Asterion, who became known as the Minotaur .
Ancient drachma from Larissa, around 420 BC, depicting Heracles with the Cretan Bull.Now in the Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland. Minos was king in Crete.In order to confirm his right to rule, rather than any of his brothers, he prayed Poseidon send him a snow-white bull as a sign.
Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, the King of Crete [9] and son of Zeus, and of Pasiphaë, Minos' queen and daughter of Helios. [10] Others denominated her mother Crete, daughter of Asterius, the husband and King of Europa. Ariadne was the sister of Acacallis, Androgeus, Deucalion, Phaedra, Glaucus, Xenodice, and Catreus. [11]
Phaedra was the daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë of Crete, and thus sister to Acacallis, Ariadne, Androgeus, Deucalion, Xenodice, Glaucus and Catreus and half-sister to the Minotaur. She was the wife of Theseus and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.
In order to win Minos's heart, she decided that she would grant him victory in battle by removing the lock from her father's head and presented it to Minos. Disgusted with her lack of filial devotion, Minos left her in the sacked ruins of Megara. In some versions Scylla pursued the departing enemy; in others he bound her to the prow of his ship.
Idomeneus was the son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, [4] [5] grandson of King Minos and king of Crete and Queen Pasiphaë, thus tracing his line from Helios the sun god. [6] He was husband of Meda by whom she became the mother of Orsilochus, [7] Cleisithyra, Iphiclus and Lycus.
In Greek mythology, Androgeus or Androgeos (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρόγεως, Latin: Androgeum or Androgeōs derived from andros "of a man" and geos, genitive gē "earth, land") was a Cretan prince as the son of King Minos. [1]