id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-1725 Minos - Wikipedia .html text/html 4893 804 77 In Greek mythology, Minos (/ˈmaɪnɒs, -nəs/; Greek: Μίνως, Mī́nōs, Ancient: [mǐːnɔːs] Modern: [ˈminos]) was a King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Minos appears in Greek literature as the king of Knossos as early as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.[9] Thucydides tells us Minos was the most ancient man known to build a navy.[10] He reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War. He lived at Knossos for periods of nine years, where he received instruction from Zeus in the legislation which he gave to the island. According to this view, the first King Minos was the son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon. In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy story Inferno, Minos is depicted as having a snake-like tail. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-1725.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-1725.txt