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CRE THE US CRONUS her to Crete , where she bore three sons , Minos , Rhadamanthys , and Sarpedon . Zeus then married her to Asterius , who had succeeded his father Tectamus as king . Asterius , whose daughter Crete was the eponym of the ...
CRE THE US CRONUS her to Crete , where she bore three sons , Minos , Rhadamanthys , and Sarpedon . Zeus then married her to Asterius , who had succeeded his father Tectamus as king . Asterius , whose daughter Crete was the eponym of the ...
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When the Athenian prince Theseus came voluntarily as one of these victims , Minos ' daughter Ariadne fell in love with him and begged Daedalus to help her rescue him . At Daedalus ' suggestion she gave Theseus a ball of thread , which ...
When the Athenian prince Theseus came voluntarily as one of these victims , Minos ' daughter Ariadne fell in love with him and begged Daedalus to help her rescue him . At Daedalus ' suggestion she gave Theseus a ball of thread , which ...
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Minos . A king of Crete . A. Some Classical writers , no doubt struck by the fact that Minos appears in mythology to have been almost perpetually the king of Crete , claimed that there were two kings of that name .
Minos . A king of Crete . A. Some Classical writers , no doubt struck by the fact that Minos appears in mythology to have been almost perpetually the king of Crete , claimed that there were two kings of that name .
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