RHADAMANTHUS (Ραδάμανθος), a son of Zeus and Europa according to Homer (Il. xiv., 322), and according to others a son of Hephaestus (Paus. viii. 53 § 2). Having fled from his brother to Boeotia, he there married Alcmena, and led a life of such signal integrity and justice that at his death he was appointed one of the three judges of the infernal regions, and had his abode in Elysium.
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