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Daedalus (or Daedalos) Crete
An Athenian craftsman and the greatest inventor of ancient times. He was sent into exile for a crime he had committed in Athens. In this way, he found himself at the court of King Minos who employed him as an architect and sculptor at the Palace of Knossos. The king was very pleased with the variety of work done by Daedalus and most of all with the Labyrinth where the Minotaur was imprisoned. But when he found out that Daedalus had made the wooden cow in which his wife Pasiphae had had intercourse with a bull, and that Daedalos had advised his daughter Ariandne to give the skein of thread to Theseus, he became very angry with him and gave orders for him to be put to death. Daedalus, however, forestalled him and escaped by air, having made wings for himself and his son Ikaros. Ikaros was killed during the flight, but Daedalus landed and took refuge in the city of Camico in Sicily. After a long search, Minos found him there, but the inventive Daedalus managed to kill his pursuer by means of a trick.