Alarmed by the creature, Minos colluded with the legendary inventor Daedalus to build it an enclosure: an enormous labyrinth buried beneath Crete. According to ancient sources, Minos would exact ...
King Idomeneus was the ruler of Crete in the time of the Trojan War, and he participated in that event according to Greek ...
In one popular myth, Minos demands that Athens send 14 Athenian youths to Crete to be sacrificed to the fearsome Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull, who dwelled in the labyrinth on the island.