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RHADAMANTHUS (Gr. Rhadamanthys)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 230 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RHADAMANTHUS (Gr. Rhadamanthys)  , in Greek
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mythology, son of
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Zeus and Europa and
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brother of
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Minos, king of Crete . Driven out of Crete by his brother, who was jealous of his popularity, he fled to
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Boeotia, where he wedded
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Alcmene . Homer represents him as dwelling in the Elysian fields (Odyssey, iv . 564) . According to later legends, on account of his in-flexible integrity he was made one of the judges of the dead in the
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lower
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world, together with
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Aeacus and Minos . He was supposed to judge the souls of Asiatics, Aeacus those of Europeans, while Minos had the casting
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vote (
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Plato, Gorgias, 4244) .

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