Minos
Americannoun
noun
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Yeboah and fellow performer Andrea Minos Menlah, 17, are among the group who will give the bearers of the secrets a voice by saying them out loud on stage.
From BBC • Oct. 7, 2023
Historians see in the myth a distant memory of the earlier civilization on Crete and use the term Minoan, derived from Minos, to describe it.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Now she’s determined to go after the dastardly Minos organization that runs the games that killed her friends, so the pals set off for New York to do some recon.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 15, 2021
When the British archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans discovered the 4,000-year-old Palace of Minos on Crete in 1900, he saw the vestiges of a long-lost civilization whose artefacts set it apart from later Bronze-Age Greeks.
From Scientific American • May 15, 2013
How Minos, King of Crete, failed to sacrifice a white bull to Poseidon.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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