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And Brother Of Minos: RHADAMANTHUS, rad-a-man'thus, according to Greek legend, a son of Zeus and Europa, and brother of Minos, king of Crete. According to another tradition, Rhadamanthus laid the foundation of the Cretan code of laws, which his brother Minos completed. From fear of his brother he is said to have fled to Ocaleia in Boeotia, where he married Alcmene. In the belief of the Greeks, a spirit in the lower world continued the business of life; hence Rhadamanthus, after his death, was made a judge in the kingdom of Pluto, or the Islands oi Blessed, on account of the-justice of his life had for his associates Aeacus and Minos, name suggests an Egyptian origin of the myt.
"It's just how great Barbaro is,'' Brother Derek's trainer Dan Hendricks said.
Barbaro is the even-money favorite for the shortest of the Triple Crown races. Brother Derek, the talented California-bred who finished in a dead heat for fourth at the Derby, is the second choice at 3-1, with Sweetnorthernsaint at 4-1 off his seventh-place Derby finish.
Jreek legends described the magnificent :ivilization of King Minos of Crete. So vhen Arthur Evans began to excavate ruins )f a hitherto unknown Cretan civilization in 899, he named it Minoan.
The people of the island of Crete devel-iped a civilization based on the use of ironze long before any other Europeans. *reed from the threat of war by their ships yhich controlled the neighbouring seas, hey built no fortresses but concentrated on he comforts of life. Knossos, their capital ity, was founded around 2500 BC.
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