The Macmillan Illustrated Encyclopedia of Myths & LegendsMacmillan, 1989 - 260 pages Fully indexed and containing lavish color illustrations and a wealth of line drawings, this is the most up-to-date, beautiful, and graphically useful reference of its kind on the market today. |
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Page 81
... MINOS , the Cretan king , Daedalus designed and built the labyrinth as a home for the Minotaur . This monstrous creature , half man and half bull , was born of the strange love of Pasiphae , Minos's queen , for a bull . Minos had asked ...
... MINOS , the Cretan king , Daedalus designed and built the labyrinth as a home for the Minotaur . This monstrous creature , half man and half bull , was born of the strange love of Pasiphae , Minos's queen , for a bull . Minos had asked ...
Page 130
... MINOS Minos , the legendary king of Crete , was famed as a law - giver and appears in Greek mythology as lord of the seas . He was the son of Zeus and Europa . EUROPA , the daughter of Agenor , King of Tyre , was carried across the sea ...
... MINOS Minos , the legendary king of Crete , was famed as a law - giver and appears in Greek mythology as lord of the seas . He was the son of Zeus and Europa . EUROPA , the daughter of Agenor , King of Tyre , was carried across the sea ...
Page 222
... MINOS . His name means " the bull of Minos " , and refers to the creature's parentage : he was the offspring of Pasiphae , the wife of Minos , and a bull sent from the sea by POSEIDON . The craftsman DAEDALUS made a decoy cow , enabling ...
... MINOS . His name means " the bull of Minos " , and refers to the creature's parentage : he was the offspring of Pasiphae , the wife of Minos , and a bull sent from the sea by POSEIDON . The craftsman DAEDALUS made a decoy cow , enabling ...
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