Catreus

Katreus

Sells his children into slavery to prevent one of them from overthrowing him.

Genealogy

Crete, Pasiphae

Minos

Acalle, Androgeus, Aria, Chryses, Deucalion, Eurymedon, Euxanthius, Glaucus, Minotaur, Nephalion, Phaedra, Philolaus, Xenodice

Aerope, Althaemenes, Apemosyne, Clymene

Places
  1. Crete
  2. Rhodes
  3. Unknown
Events
  1. Minos marries Pasiphae, has children
  2. Catreus gets an oracle that one of his children will kill him
  3. Catreus gives Aerope and Clymene to Nauplius to sell into slavery
  4. Catreus comes to Rhodes in order to give his kingdom to Althaemenes.
  5. Althaemenes accidentally kills Catreus
  6. Menelaus goes to Crete to give funeral rites to his grandfather
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.5
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.2
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.1
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.2
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.10
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.3
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.8
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 53.4
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