Creature

Name: Minos

Alternate Name: Minosse

Source: classical

Nature: mythical

Gender: unspecified

Description: In Greek myth King of Crete and later judge of the Underworld; in the Inferno Minos is judge of the damned, a monstrous demon who wraps his long tail around each sinner a number of times equal to the circle of Hell in which the sinner will be flung.

Images:

Ademollo, Luigi

Ademollo, Minos

Doré, Gustave

Doré, Minos

Genelli, Bonaventura

Genelli, Francesca before Minos

Pinelli, Bartolomeo

Pinelli, Minos

Priamo della Quercia

Yates Thompson 36, Minos

Stürler, Adolf von.

Stürler, Minos Stürler, Paolo and Francesca

Vellutello, Alessandro (commissioner)

Vellutello, Lustful Vellutello, Lustful
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