\b0 An Athenian aristocrat and architect, he fled to Crete to escape a conviction and placed himself in the service o
f King \b \cf4 \ATXht11316 Minos\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , for whom he built the labyrinth, a palace with a complicated maze of corridors in which the \b \cf4 \ATXht11317 Minotaur\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 was shut up. When \b \cf4 \ATXht12010 Theseus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 fo
und his way through the labyrinth with the help of \b \cf4 \ATXht10137 Ariadne\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , Daedalus was accused of being his accomplice and imprisoned along with his son \b \cf4 \ATXht10902 Icarus\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 . He managed to escape from Crete w
ith the aid of artificial wings held together by wax. Pursued relentlessly by Minos, he found refuge in Sicily, with King Cocalus of Camicus.\par
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\b \i \cf4 \ATXht1060 The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus