Rhadamanthys

...He imprisoned the monster in the Labyrinth, a labyrinth built by the master craftsman Daedalus, and fed it to 14 boys and girls sent from Athens each year as punishment for the murder of his son Androgeos. The monster was eventually defeated by the Athenian prince Theseus, and Daedalus escaped from Crete by air using artificial wings. He followed Daedalus to Sicily, where he was killed by the local king, Kōkalos. These are mainly Attic traditions, but there are also other traditions that say that he organized the oldest navy, defeated pirates, and ruled the entire Aegean Sea, while at the same time giving laws to Crete and governing it well, and that after his death he became a judge of the underworld, together with his brother Rhadamanthys, who was also a famous lawgiver, and Aiakos, a hero known for his piety. Both of these are thought to be faint memories of the heyday of the prehistoric Cretan civilization, also called the Minoan civilization after him. The name Minos may have been a dynastic name or a royal title.

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Rhadamanthys" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…彼はこの怪物を名匠ダイダロスに造らせた迷宮ラビュリントスに閉じ込め，息子アンドロゲオス殺害の償いとして毎年アテナイから送られる14人の少年少女を餌に与えていたが，怪物はやがてアテナイの王子テセウスに退治され，またダイダロスは人工の翼によって空からクレタ島を脱出したので，そのあとを追ってシチリア島に行き，同地の王コカロスKōkalosに殺されたという。以上はおもにアッティカ地方の伝承であるが，これとは別に，彼は最古の海軍の組織者で，海賊を平らげてエーゲ海全域を支配する一方，クレタ島に法を与えて善政を布いたので，同じく有名な立法者であった弟のラダマンテュスRhadamanthys，敬虔をもって知られた英雄アイアコスAiakosとともに，死後，冥界の裁判官になったとする伝承もあり，いずれも，かすかながら，彼の名にちなんでミノス文明とも呼ばれる先史時代のクレタ文明の最盛期の記憶をとどめるものと考えられている。なお，ミノスの名は王朝名または王の称号であったかもしれない。…

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