CLAS 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Minos, Aegeus, Rhadamanthus
3 May 2016
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(1) crete: great sea power (ships, trade) powerful kings (i. e. minos) and great archeology (palaces: religious artifacts: snake goddess, linear a on object (x decipher, x decipher linear a don"t know language :. No inscriptions w/ dates no history, only archeology :. no original. Cretan myth but have crete in myth :. Crete: she has children minos, rhadamanthys {they"re also the judges in hades, minos + pasipahe = androgeus (by his death becomes very imp. ) , ariadne and phaedra (wife theseus in the. Agenor"s children: europa, cadmus (also in story of bachai) Of these sons, one is going to be king: minos and pasipahe. Minos persuades poseidon to give him a sign that he should be king (he drives out his own brothers) Poseidon sends him a sign omen = bull coming out of sea and coming to minos so cretans will accept him as king. So poseidon makes pasiphae fall in love with that bull.
