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Labyrinth

In Greek legend, the maze designed by the Athenian artisan Daedalus at Knossos in Crete for King Minos, as a home for the Minotaur – a monster, half man and half bull. After killing the Minotaur, Theseus, the prince of Athens, was guided out of the Labyrinth by a thread given to him by the king's daughter Ariadne.

labyrinth

In archaeology, any sort of building with a complicated plan. The term was applied to the Palace of Minos at Knossos and also used by Herodotus to describe the funeral temple of Amenemhet III at Crocodilopolis (later Arsinoe) of the late 3rd millennium BC.

In Greek legend, Daedalus designed the Labyrinth of Knossos to contain the Minotaur.



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