Biography Minos

Minos – a mythical king of Crete, on which deferred all that is known of the history of this island over the last two centuries before the Trojan War. Thus, he is considered the founder of marine domination Cretans, he also attributed to the famous drevnekritskoe legislation, which they led Zeus himself. M., by Homer legend – the son of Zeus and Europe, the brother of Rhadamanthus, the father of Phaedra, Apiadny, Deucalion and the death of others to adopt his Asterion (or Asteria), leaving no children, M. conceived to capture the royal power in Crete, asserting that it is this the gods and that all his prayers will be answered. Indeed, when he asked Poseidon to send him to sacrifice an animal, God sent him from the sea of the beautiful bull, and MM received royal power. But perhaps the beautiful animal, he sent the bull in their herd, and sacrificed the other. As punishment Poseidon afflicted bovine rabies and instilled in his wife M. Pasifae, unnatural passion for this bull, the Minotaur was the result of her when her son M., androgen, was assassinated in Athens, Moscow forced the Athenians to the tribute, and 7 young people and 7 girls every 9 years. Along the way he won and Megara. Death overtook him in Sicily, where he pursued Daedalus. He was killed by the daughter of King Kok (or himself Coucal), using a hot bath. Throop was issued his companions and buried them in Sicily, but then his bones were transported to Crete, where he was a monument. In the underworld he was on the Odyssey, he examined the souls of the dead. This is to judge the shades it with Eakom Rhadamanthus and makes the later legend, probably in memory of his activities as a legislator. In modern times began to distinguish the two AM, I and II, in order to have the opportunity to share dedicated to AM too rich mythological material, while AM I was considered the son of Zeus and Europe, and M. II – the grandson of M. I, my husband and Pasifai the father of Deucalion Ariadna etc.