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DAEDALUS
, a mythical See also:Greek architect and sculptor, who figures largely in the See also:early legends of See also:Crete and of See also:Athens
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He was said to have built the See also:labyrinth for See also:Minos, to have made a wooden cow for Pasiphae and to have fashioned a See also:bronze See also:man who repelled the See also:Argonauts
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Falling under the displeasure of Minos, he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus, and escaped to See also:Sicily
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These legends seem primarily to belong to Crete; and the Athenian See also:element in them which connected Daedalus with the royal See also:house of See also:Erechtheus is a later fabrication
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To Daedalus the Greeks of the historic See also:age were in the See also:habit of attributing buildings, and statues the origin of which was lost in the past, and which had no inscription belonging to them
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In a later See also:verse in the Iliad (date, 7th or 6th See also:century), Daedalus is mentioned as the maker of a dancing-See also:place for See also:Ariadne in Crete; and such a dancing-place has been discovered by A
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See also:Evans, in the Minoan See also:palace of See also:Cnossus
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Diodorus Siculus says that he executed various See also:works in Sicily for See also: This Daedalus must not be confused with Daedalus of See also:Sicyon, a See also:great sculptor of the early See also:part of the 4th century si.C., none of whose works is extant . (P . |
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