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King of Crete

Minos

Minos
Minos, engraving by Gustave Doré for Dante's Inferno, 1861. Public domain

Son of Zeus and Europa, king at Knossos. He kept the Minotaur in a labyrinth under his palace, demanded a tribute of Athenian youths to feed it, and imprisoned the man who built it.

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