ETC Sacred Texts

Mazes and Labyriths: Chapter V. The Cretan Labyrinth (continued)

Summary only - full text stays on its own separately-gated source. Read the full text at the source »

(ii) The Caverns of Gortyna ACCORDING to the Romano-Greek writer Apollodorus, 1 whose "Bibliotheke" consisted of a history of the world from the fall of Troy onwards, Daedalus built the Labyrinth at Knossos for King Minos on the lines of the Egyptian Labyrinth, but of only one-hundredth part of the magnitude of the latter. This statement, which was repeated by various other ancient writers such as Pliny and Diodorus, caused many subsequent inquirers to look for evidence in Crete of a building…

Mazes and Labyriths: Chapter V. The Cretan Labyrinth (continued)

Related pages View as graph →