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\yas the queen of Afterius ('), and mother of Minos Q; andGREEKs.the Idaean Curetes were her countrymen, and came with her andher brother Alymnus into Crete, and dwelt in the Idaean cave inher reign, and there educated Jupiter, and found out iron, andmade armour : and therefore thefe three, Afterius, Europa, andMinos, muft be the Saturn, Rhea and Jupiter of the C retans.

Minos is ufually called the fon of Jupiter; but this is in relationto the fable, that Jupiter in the Ihape of a bull, the enfign of thefhip, carried away Europa from Zidon : for the Phcenicians, up-on their firft coming into Greece, gave the name of Jao-pater,

Jupiter, to every king; and thus both Minos and his father wereJupiters. Echemenes, an ancient author cited by Athenaeus a , > Athen. 1.13.faid that Minos was that Jupiter who committed the rape upon p ' 6oKGanimede; though others faid more truly that it was Tantalus ( 3 ).

Minos alone was that Jupiter who was moft famous among theGreelcs for dominion and juftice, being the greateft king in aliGreece in thole days, and the only legiflator. Plutarch b telis >> Piutarch.;«us, that the people of Naxus, contrary to what others write, pre- Thefeo ' p ' 9 'tended that there were two Minos’s, and two Ariadnes; and thatthe firft Ariadne married Bacchus, and the laft was carried awayby Thefe us. But ^ Homer, Hefiod, Thucydides, Herodotus, and c Homer. 11.Strabo, knew but of one Minos; and Homer defcribes him to be ^ 2 ',t &’odytthe fon of Jupiter and Europa; and the brother of Rhadaman- & T -thus and Sarpedon ; and the father of Deucalion the Argonaut;and grandfather of Idomeneus who warred at Troy; and that hewas the legiflator of Hell. Herodotus d makes Minos and Rhada-d Herod . lt umanthus ( 4 ) the fons of Europa, contemporary to iEgeus: and e c '^[ !od>e Apollodorus and Hyginus fay, that Minos, the father of An-drogeus, Ariadne and Phaedra, was the fon of Jupiter and Eu- 40,41,42,43,ropa, and brother of Rhadamanthus and Sarpedon. I?8 '

LXXII. Lucian f lets us know, that Europa the mother of Mi-f Ludamnos was worfhipped by the name of Rhea( I ), in the form of a deDeaS y ria -

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dedicated, asfome imagined, to Europa. And in another part of the fame traft, hefaysof thefamous temple at Hierapolis, that, among many different opinions concerning the founder of it,and the divinity to which it was confecrated, one was, that Attis had been the founder, andthat the goddefs w r as Rhea. And in confirmation of this, he alledges, that the idol of this tem-ple had ibme of the peculiar attribute- of Rhea : namely, the Car drawn by lions, the drum,

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