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A-Z: General definitions: Knossos
Definition
The largest city on Crete and the site of the palace of King Minos (modern Heraklion).
Related Topics
Labyrinth; Minotaur; Ariadne; Theseus
Large Greek island in the Mediterranean.
King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon.
The legendary home of the Minotaur, possibly a folk memory of the ruins of the labyrinthine palace of Knossos.
Monster with a bull's head and a man's body, the offspring of the union between Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a bull.
Daughter of King Minos of Crete, helped Theseus slay the Minotaur.
A great Athenian hero, the son of Aegeus (or Poseidon according to some versions) and Aethra.
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