Catreus

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

• Minos

Domains

• cretan kingship
• doomed prophecy

Powers

• Holds the kingship of Crete after Minos

Relations

• father: Minos
• sibling: Phaedra
• sibling: Ariadne
• sibling: Androgeos
• sibling: Glaucus

Sources

• Apollodorus 3.1.2, 3.2.1-2, Epitome 2.10; Diodorus Siculus 5.59; Pausanias 8.53.4; Hyginus Fabulae 97
• Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1993), pp. 270-271, 552
• Apollod. 3.1.2 (son of Minos and Pasiphae)