MYTHOLOGY Minos; Aeacus and Rhadamanthus judges of the dead. The three demigods; Aeacus son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina; Minos and Rhadamanthus the sons of Zeus and Europe; were famous in life for the fairness of their sentences; so their deaths were appointed judges according to the myth of Hades. Engraving by Jean Emmanuel De Ghendt (1738-1815) drawing of Jean-Michel Moreau the younger (1741-1814); France; the eighteenth century