We talked about the bizarre Minos and his amatory conquests and his wife.
Now we will talk of his wartime achievements, and found that even here we find the mix of animal magnetism and ruthlessness in making promises: the characteristics of our Minos, in fact.
Minos was a great leader, when the Athenians killed treacherously Androgeus his son, the king of Crete led a powerful army to get revenge.
First, with his army tried to seize the Isthmus of Corinth, and in particular of Megara. This city reigned Nisus, who was invincible because of a golden hair (some say purple) that grew on his head.
While the siege continued without success, Scylla, the daughter of Nisus, he saw again and again the king of the Cretans, and suppose the victim of his animal magnetism, he fell in love. He managed to combine a secret meeting with the king and on that occasion, promised to Minos that would cut the fairy hair (and fatal) of her father, Minos promised to marry her in return.
And here again the characteristic unreliability of the king because Scilla face what he had promised, he cut the hair that is killing so Nisus and dropping the city in the hands of Crete, but Minos, however, was terrified for patricide (which ? could not horrify the time of the proposal?) and not only refused to honor the promise of marriage, but rather tied to the Scylla bow of his ship, drowning the girl.
Socket Megara, Minos besieged Athens: the gods, do not know why, they were still on the side of this perjury, and sent a plague against city. In order to avoid worse problems
the Athenians were forced to accept the harsh terms of the peace treaty: they would provide each year seven girls and seven boys, who would be conducted in the Labyrinth for the Minotaur to be nurturing ... for our king of Crete, as happened for the rest of the ancient Greeks, revenge could become a source of income, although very hot!
Back home, the life of Minos was marred by a mourning his son, the little Glauco drowned in honey, but Curetes told him not to despair: the child could be raised by the man who would know better than to describe others the color of a certain royal herds of cows that changes color three times a day (other ground beef in particular Cretan ...): it was white in the morning, then became red and finally black, the morning after the cycle began again.
The diviner's son Poliido Cerano, a native of Argos (or currants) succeeded: the cow was like the brunette, who was born white, then turns red and black when ripe.
As a reward, Poliido was locked up with the corpse of a small (perhaps in the Labyrinth), and was ordered not to leave until he had raised Glaucus. Imagine the perplexity of Poliido: I guess so, but rise on the dead, just no! As reflected
saw a snake near the corpse of the child: the soothsayer killed him. Then came a second serpent, seeing the first snake died, moved away, came back with a herb which rubbed his companion, who immediately revived. Poliido took the grass, massaging it with the body of Glaucus, was able to resuscitate the child. Minos
proved once again far from the ideal of fair and honest with the king which made history: he refused to let go Poliido until he taught Glaucus the art of prophecy. A Poliido reluctantly completed the education of the child, but when he finally was allowed to leave, got into the ship that sailed into the mouth and spat Glauco: they lost all power of prophecy.
For once the king perjury had been played. But it was not the last ...
Some small notes ...
mythical ties between Crete and Athens are numerous: recall the myth of Androgeus and sending the victims to the Minotaur, then that of Theseus, the prince and then king of Athens, in love with a daughter of Minos and her husband a second daughter , while that of the bull then became the lover of Pasiphae bull of Marathon, to procreate, who attended the king from his curse sexual, daughter of King Erechtheus of Athens, that of King Nisus of Megara, who was born in Athens, while that of Daedalus , Athens to Crete to escape ... perhaps the only RPGs, the Royal Society Pseudo-Geogaphic could explore this topic with sufficient expertise.
According to a myth, the gods took pity and turned it into Scylla of heron. Nisus was changed into a sea eagle.
The myth of Glaucus would be drowned in the recollection of the custom Cretan honey to mummify the bodies of dead dipping, of course, honey.
According to some versions, Glauco would not have been resurrected thanks to Poliido, but directly by the supreme physician Asclepius, son of Apollo. Asclepius repeated the enterprise with Hippolytus, Theseus' son. Hades, lord of the dead, already tired of losing customers because of the great medical cures, did not tolerate that he be taken away even that which was already his: he complained to Zeus thundered his nephew. Asclepius
But then it would be resurrected as a god of healing.
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