Some stated that Androgeus participated in the Panathenaic Games and took all the prizes, whereupon he directed to Thebes to take part in another contest in honor of Laius, but was ambushed and killed by his envious would-be competitors.
[2] In Pausanias' interpretation, Androgeus being killed by the bull is presented as more of an accident, which, however, Minos is remarked not to have believed.
Minos received the news of his son's death when he was performing a sacrificial rite in honor of the Charites at Paros.
Minos led a war against Athens to avenge the death of his son, but failed to sack the city and prayed to Zeus that the Athenians may be punished.
The Athenians consulted an oracle as to how to avert the calamity, and were instructed to sacrifice the daughters of Hyacinthus the Lacedaemonian, but this did not help.