In Greek mythology, Catreus ("down-flowing") was a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. He had one son, Althaemenes, and three daughters, Apemosyne, Aerope and Clymene. The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... Front face of the MINOS far detector. ... In Greek mythology, Pasiphaë (Eng. ... In Greek mythology, Althaemenes was a son of Catreus and brother of Apemosyne. ... In Greek mythology, Apemosyne was a daughter of Catreus and sister of Althaemenes. ... In Greek mythology, Aerope was the wife of King Atreus of Mycenae. ... In Greek mythology, Clymene or Klymenê (famous might) is the name of at least six possibly distinct females. ...

An oracle told Catreus that one of his children would murder him. Terrified he would do so, Althaemenes took Apemosyne and left Crete for Rhodes. Catreus gave his other daughters to Nauplius to be sold off in foreign lands: Aerope married Pleisthenes, and Clymene married Nauplius himself. Consulting the Oracle by John William Waterhouse, showing eight priestesses in a temple of prophecy An oracle is a person or persons considered to be the source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ... For other uses, see Crete (disambiguation). ... Rhodes (Greek: Ρόδος Rhódhos; Italian Rodi; [[Ladino language| ) is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, situated in eastern Aegean Sea. ... In Greek mythology, Nauplius was the name of two characters, one descended from the other. ... In Greek mythology, Pleisthenes was the a son of Pelops. ...

Years later, Catreus sailed the seas searching for his son, the heir to the throne. In the middle of the night, his ship stopped at Rhodes and was mistaken for a pirate ship. Althaemenes and others attacked the 'invaders', and the prophecy came to pass; Catreus died at the hands of his son, from a javelin blow. For other uses, see inheritance (disambiguation). ...

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Apollodorus, Bibliotheke III, iii, 1-2 Apollodorus was a common name in ancient Greece. ... The Bibliotheke was renowned as the chief work of Greek historian and scholar. ...