Kres

Kres ( Greek Κρής ), father of Talos , ancestor of the funeral judge Rhadamanthys and eponym of Crete , is a figure in Greek mythology .

As the autochthonous king of the Eteocretes , he is said to have given the inhabitants of Crete the first laws before Minos . He hid Zeus from his father Kronos and raised the future Olympic ruler. In this function, Kres is assigned to the Curetes .

According to other traditions, he was a son of Zeus and an Idaean nymph .

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kres . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 1419 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Otto Jessen : Rhadamanthys . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Sp. 77-86 ( digitized version ).

[1] Otto Jessen : Rhadamanthys . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Sp. 77-86 ( digitized version ).