Rhadamanthus
mythological figure · 10 works · 11 mentions · 11 anchored passages
yellow-haired Rhadamanthus
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Mythological judge of the dead in the underworld.
Perhaps too the inexorable judges, Minos and Rhadamanthus?
To think that, when you have escaped from those who wish to be reckoned in the number of judges, you should come to those who are truly called judges — Minos, Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, Triptolemus — and meet with those who have lived justly and in good faith — can this journey seem to you a mean one?
Cyclops
Mythological judge associated with perfect justice, invoked by the Cyclops as a comparison
for my part I put more faith in him than Rhadamanthus, declaring him more just.
Iliad
Son of Zeus and the daughter of Phoenix, named alongside Minos in Zeus's catalogue.
Then there was the daughter of Phoenix, who bore me Minos and Rhadamanthus:
Odyssey
A figure ferried by Phaeacian sailors to visit Tityus, cited by Alkinoos as proof of his ships' speed.
You can sleep during the whole voyage if you like, and the men shall sail you over smooth waters either to your own home, or wherever you please, even though it be a long way further off than Euboea, which those of my people who saw it when they took yellow-haired Rhadamanthus to see Tityus the son of Gaia, tell me is the furthest of any place - and yet they did the whole voyage in a single day wi …
The Rights of War and Peace
Mythological judge of the underworld invoked for the maxim of retributive justice.
it is not unjust, according to the principles of nature that any one should suffer in proportion to the evil he has done, conformably to the judicial maxim of Rhadamanthus, that if any one himself suffers what he has done, it is but just and right.
Panathenaicus
A mythic figure invoked as an example of virtue predating Spartan settlement.
These things being so, if you speak the truth when you assert that they were the discoverers of the best ways of life, then it must follow that those who lived many generations before the Spartans settled there had no part in them—neither those who made the expedition against Troy nor those who were of the generation of Heracles and Theseus or of Minos, son of Zeus, or Rhadamanthus or Aeacus or an …
Apology
Mythological judge of the dead in the underworld
For if a man when he reaches the other world, after leaving behind these who claim to be judges, shall find those who are really judges who are said to sit in judgment there, Minos and Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus and Triptolemus, and all the other demigods who were just men in their lives, would the change of habitation be undesirable?
The Genius of the Common Law
Mythological judge of the underworld before whose court Baron Surrebutter's shade is arraigned.
’ Before Rhadamanthus, Baron Surrebutter relates, he was charged with having obstructed justice with the frivolous technicalities of special pleading.
Apologeticum
Mythical judge of the dead in Greek tradition, paired with Minos.
let them say before the tribunal, if they will, that Minos and Rhadamanthus, by the consent of Plato and the poets, have this lot;
De Spectaculis
Mythological judge of the underworld in Greek tradition, contrasted with Christ as true judge.
The poets too, trembling not before the tribunal of Rhadamanthus nor of Minos, but of the unexpected Christ?