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King Minos is the main antagonist of The Battle of the Labyrinth, the fourth Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel. He is the former king of Crete, and the archnemesis of Daedalus and the archenemy of Nico di Angelo.
History[]
Minos, along with his brothers, Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon, was raised by King Asterion of Crete. When he died, Minos claimed the throne of Crete, where after he banished his brothers. Minos reigned over Crete and the islands of the Aegean Sea three generations before the Trojan War.
Minos’s son Androgeos had won the Panathenaeic Games, the king, Aegeus, sent him to Marathon to fight a bull, resulting in the death of Androgeos. Outraged, Minos went to Athens to avenge his son, on the way he camped at Megara. The king there at the time was Nisos (one of Aegeus' brothers), and his strength came from his hair. His daughter, Scylla, fell in love with Minos and cut off her father's purple hair so Minos could conquer the city. After his triumph, he punished Scylla for her treachery against her father by tying her to a boat and dragging her until she drowned. On arriving in Athens, he asked Zeus to punish the city, and the god struck it with plague and hunger. An oracle told the Athenians to meet any of Minos' demands if they wanted to escape further punishment. Minos then demanded Athens to send seven boys and seven girls to Crete every nine years to be sacrificed to the Minotaur.
Minos sacrificed hundreds of youth to the Minotaur before Theseus slayed the monster. After the Minotaur’s death, Minos decided to imprison Daedalus and his son Icarus in the heart of the Labyrinth. Daedalus and Icarus managed to escape Crete, leading Minos on a decade long manhunt for Daedalus. Minos managed to find Daedalus by advertising a riddle: thread a string through a shell without breaking it. Minos finally found Daedalus in the kingdom of Agrigentum. Minos visited the kingdom, offering the king a hefty reward of gold for Daedalus. While bathing, the king’s daughters, who had taken a liking to Daedalus, wrap Minos in brass, disintegrating him
In the Series[]
The Battle of the Labyrinth[]
He first appears in an Iris Message conversing with Nico di Angelo. Nico asks if there's any way to bring back his deceased sister, Bianca di Angelo. Minos answers with yes there is a way but it requires an exchange -- a soul for a soul. The Iris Message ends abruptly.
He is next seen at the Triple G Ranch with Nico. He is not present when Nico, Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover are bound and gagged but he is present for Nico summoning Bianca's ghost. He watches as the di Angelo siblings converse. Bianca gently admonishes her younger brother and reveals she is the one who sent the Iris Message to Percy Jackson. She tells Nico to stop holding a grudge against Percy as he (Nico) blamed Percy for Bianca's demise the previous winter. She tells him that it was her decision to die, she chose it. She then disappears. Once she is gone Minos tells Nico to hold on to his grudge against Percy but the two cousins make amends. Nico and Minos stay at the ranch for the time being.
Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson arrive at to the workshop of Minos's greatest enemy, Daedulus. Waiting for them are Minos, Nico, and some of Kronos's soldiers. Minos and the soldiers plan to kill the four plus Nico. Minos reveals he manipulated Nico to get revenge on Daedulus. During the insuing battle Nico fully defects from Minos (a process he started after the Bianca incident). Nico then says he rules the dead as is his birthright as a son of Hades. Minos laughs in his face and says that he is the Ghost King. Nico strikes the ground with his sword and says to his longtime manipulator, "No. I am". Through the new hole in the ground Minos is slowly and painfully sent back to the Underworld as his physical form disappears.
It is later revealed that Minos allied himself with Kronos and the Titans and gave Chris Rodriguez, a former member of Kronos's forces, severe PTSD.
Daedulus dies at the end of the book and Minos is terribly excited to punish his mortal enemy. He plans to boil him in cheese fondue for all eternity but the other judges of the dead plus Hades override him. Instead Daedulus goes to Elysium and is given the job of designing and building bridges and underpasses in Asphodel to ease traffic and congestion and Minos doesn't get the revenge he dreamed of for millennias.
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