Editing Rhadamanthus (section)

== Family ==
Rhadamanthus was, according to Bulfinch's ''The Age of Fable'', the son of [[Zeus]] and [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] and brother to [[Sarpedon (brother of Minos)|Sarpedon]] and [[Minos]] (also a king and later a judge of the dead).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ageoffableorbeau00bulf|title=The age of fable; or, Beauties of mythology|first1=Thomas|last1=Bulfinch|first2=J. Loughran (John Loughran)|last2=Scott|date=24 January 1898|publisher=Philadelphia, D. McKay|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Together with his brother, Rhadamanthus was raised by [[Asterion (king of Crete)|Asterion]], their stepfather. He had two sons, [[Gortys (mythology)|Gortys]] (associated with [[Gortyn]], [[Crete]]) and Erythrus (founder of [[Erythrae]]).

A different tradition represents Rhadamanthys as the son of [[Hephaestus]], Hephaestus as a son of [[Talos]], and Talos as a son of [[Cres (mythology)|Cres]], the personification of Crete. This tradition is reported by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], who cites the poet [[Cinaethon of Sparta]] as his source.<ref>{{cite book |author=Pausanias |author-link=Pausanias (geographer) |title=[[Description of Greece]] |at=[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.53 8. 53.2–5]}}</ref> According to [[Athenaeus]], the lyric poet [[Ibycus]] wrote of Rhadamanthys as the lover of Talos, rather than grandson.<ref>Ibycus Fragment 32 in {{cite book |editor-last=Edmonds |editor-first=J. M.|title=Lyrae Graeca Vol. 2|publisher=Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press|year=1924 |page=101}}</ref> The [[Suda]], a Byzantine encyclopedia from the tenth-century CE, adds to this that Talos and Rhadamanthus introduced homosexuality to Crete.<ref>Suda s.v. Theta 41. [https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/theta/41  Θάμυρις].</ref>

Other sources (e.g. [[Plutarch]], ''Theseus'' 20) credit Rhadamanthys rather than [[Dionysus]] as the husband of [[Ariadne]], and the father of [[Oenopion]], [[Staphylus (son of Dionysus)|Staphylus]] and [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]]. In this account, Ariadne was the daughter of Minos, Rhadamanthys's brother; another Ariadne was the daughter of Minos's grandson and namesake, who features in [[Theseus]]'s legend and was rescued by Dionysus.