Mazes and labyrinths : a general account of their history and developments (1922)
Matthews, William Henry, 1882- · London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Co., 39 Paternoster Row, London, E.E.4 · leaf 52
put to^death by Minos butwere retained as slaves. Plutarch, moreover, deploresthe abuse which Greek tradition had heaped upon thename of Minos, pointing out that Homer and Hesiodhad referred to him in very honourable terms, and20 that he was reputed to have laid down the principlesof justice.… … Fig. 6.—Cretan Labyrinth. (Italian Engraving ; School of Finiguerra.) laws, like another Moses, direftTfrom God, and afteradministering them during his life on earth continuedto do so in the underworld after his death. The probability is, as Professor Murray has suggested,that Minos was a general…
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