Catreus
Greek · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Eldest son of Minos and Pasiphae; king of Crete after Minos and victim of the oracle of death-by-his-own-child, slain on Rhodes by his unrecognizing son Althaemenes. Through his daughter Aerope (given to Nauplius and married to Atreus) he is grandfather of Agamemnon and Menelaus; his funeral is the errand that draws Menelaus from Sparta in the Helen tradition. Authored as quartigod by the descent math (Minos demigod 0.5 + unregistered Pasiphae as mortal 0, /2 = 0.25).
Parentage
- father: MinosApollod. 3.1.2, 3.2.1 (primary)
Domains
- cretan kingship
- doomed prophecy
Powers
- Holds the kingship of Crete after Minos
Relations
- father: MinosApollod. 3.1.2, 3.2.1 (primary)
- mother: Pasiphae (daughter of Helios, wife of Minos; unregistered second parent) · GreekApollod. 3.1.2 (primary)
- sibling: PhaedraBrother of Phaedra; both children of Minos and Pasiphae.Apollod. 3.1.2 (primary)
- sibling: AriadneApollod. 3.1.2 (primary)
- sibling: AndrogeosApollod. 3.1.2 (primary)
- sibling: Glaucus son of MinosApollod. 3.1.2 (primary)
- father of: Althaemenes (son of Catreus, his unwitting killer on Rhodes; unregistered) · GreekApollod. 3.2.1-2; Diod. 5.59.4 (primary)
- father of: Aerope (daughter of Catreus, wife of Atreus, mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus; unregistered) · GreekApollod. 3.2.1-2, Epit. 2.10 (primary)
- father of: Apemosyne (daughter of Catreus, killed by Althaemenes; unregistered) · GreekApollod. 3.2.1 (primary)
- father of: Clymene (daughter of Catreus, given to Nauplius; unregistered) · GreekApollod. 3.2.2 (primary)