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The king who built a maze to hide the monster he refused to admit was his.
means Minos is the legendary king of Crete in Greek mythology who commissioned the Labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, and whose name later came to stand for a stern, exacting judge.
from From the Greek Mínōs (Μίνως), the name of the mythical Cretan king said to be a son of Zeus and Europa. The name is pre-Greek in origin, likely borrowed from the older language of the Minoans — the Bronze Age Cretan civilization that modern archaeologists named after him. In myth he became one of the three judges of the dead in the underworld, which is why later writers used 'a Minos' for a severe arbiter; the related Minotaur literally means 'the bull of Minos' (Mínōs + taûros, 'bull').
- royal cuckold
- His wife conceived the Minotaur with a bull
- underworld gig
- Became a judge of the dead after dying
- named a civilization
- Minoan Crete borrows his name entirely
- tribute taker
- Demanded Athenian youths fed to the maze
- boiled alive
- Died scalded in a bath via hot water
minos palace knossos — bronze age minoan palace in crete, greece, built around 1700 bce with throne room and elaborate frescoes
labyrinth myth — greek mythology's legendary maze built by daedalus to trap the minotaur in ancient crete