Rhadamanthys
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Mythological judge of the underworld, invoked here as the source of a rule equating justice with suffering what one has done.
(although people mean to identify it with the latter when they quote the rule of Rhadamanthys— An a man suffer even that which he did, Right justice will be done).
The Erotic Essay
Mythological figure cited as an example of one beloved by the gods for his discretion.
we shall find that Aeacus and Rhadamanthys were beloved by the gods for their discretion, Heracles, Castor and Pollux for their courage, and Ganymedes, Adonis, and others like them for their beauty, so that I at any rate am not astonished at those who covet your friendship but at those who are not so disposed.