Daedalus the Labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single dancing path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end. Ovid, in his "Metamorphoses", suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice. Instead,
Daedalus in Crete Daedalus in Crete Daedalus in Crete ("Δαίδαλος στην Κρήτη") is a play by the Greek lyric poet and playwright Angelos Sikelianos entirely written and published at the journal Nea Estia (written in 1942 and published in 1943, which makes it the second tragedy of Sikelianos given to the public, as its publication precedes “Sibylla” which may have been written earlier but was published at the end of the Occupation), during the Axis occupation of Greece. This event may be linked to the planned and announced project - not completed - on behalf of Sikelianos, to write the tragedies "Daedalus in