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{{Short description|Mythological king of Crete}} {{Other uses}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} [[File:Inferno Canto 5 line 4 Minos.jpg|250 px|thumb|[[Gustave Doré]]'s illustration of King Minos for [[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'']] [[File:Mural of Minos at the National And Kapodistrian University of Athens on May 22, 2022.jpg|thumb|Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens]] In [[Greek mythology]], '''Minos''' ([[Help:IPA/English|/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/]] {{audio|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Minos.wav|}}; {{langx|el|Μίνως}}, [[Help:IPA/Greek|[mǐːnɔːs]]]) was a [[Basileus|king]] of [[Crete]], son of [[Zeus]] and [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]]. Every nine years, he made [[Aegeus|King Aegeus]] pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to [[Daedalus]]'s creation, the [[labyrinth]], to be eaten by the [[Minotaur]]. After his death, King Minos became a [[Greek underworld#Judges of the underworld|judge of the dead]] in the underworld alongside [[Rhadamanthus]] and [[Aeacus]]. Archeologist Sir [[Arthur Evans]] used King Minos as the namesake for the [[Minoan civilization]] of Crete. The [[Minoan palaces|Minoan palace]] at [[Knossos]] is sometimes referred to as the ''Palace of Minos'' though there is no evidence that Minos was a real person.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Williams |first=Bernard |date=2001 |title=What Was Wrong with Minos? Thucydides and Historical Time |url=https://online.ucpress.edu/representations/article/74/1/1/94922/What-Was-Wrong-with-Minos-Thucydides-and |journal=Representations |language=en |volume=74 |issue=1 |pages=1–18 |doi=10.1525/rep.2001.74.1.1|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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