Aeacus
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Aeacus was a king of the island of Aegina in Greek mythology. He was a son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina, and the father of the heroes Peleus and Telamon. According to legend, he was famous for his jus
Ancient Greek fresco of Aeacus in the Tomb of Judgement, Lefkadia, c. 300–250 BC.
Minos, Aeacus and Rhadamanthys by Ludwig Mack, Bildhauer
Henryk Siemiradzki Orfeusz w podziemnym królestwie
Minos
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In Greek mythology, Minos was a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation, the labyrint
Aeacus
…Peleus and Telamon. According to legend, he was famous for his justice, and after he died he became one of the three judges in the underworld alongside Minos and Rhadamanthus. In another story, he assisted Poseidon and Apollo in building the walls of Troy. He had sanctuaries in Athens and Aegina, and the…
Minos witnesses the killing of the Minotaur on an Attic red-figure calyx-krater by the Syriskos Painter, c. 500-475 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Greece.
Mural of Minos at the National and Kapodistrain University of Athens
17th-century engraving of Scylla falling in love with Minos
A Roman mosaic from Zeugma, Commagene (now in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum) depicting Daedalus, his son Icarus, Queen Pasiphaë, and two of her female attendants