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