CHAPTER XII.

KRETAN LEGENDS.—MINOS AND HIS FAMILY.

Minôs and Rhadamanthus, sons of Zeus.—Europê.—Pasiphaê and the Minôtaur.—Scylla and Nisus.—Death of Androgeos, and anger of Minôs against Athens.—Athenian victims for the Minôtaur.—Self-devotion of Thêseus—he kills the Minôtaur.—Athenian commemorative ceremonies.—Family of Minôs.—Minôs and Dædalus—flight of the latter to Sicily.—Minôs goes to retake him, but is killed.—Semi-Krêtan settlements elsewhere—connected with this voyage of Minôs.—Sufferings of the Krêtans afterwards from the wrath of Minôs.—Portrait of Minôs—how varied.—Affinity between Krête and Asia Minor. 218-230