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From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was a great [[craftsman]] and [[handyman]] and [[artisan]]; he made a wooden [[cow]] to mate with the bull to conceive the [[Minotaur]]; at the request of [[King]] [[Minos]], he built the [[labyrinth]] which kept the Minotaur and in which [[Theseus]] navigated. Source: [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]], authority on Greek mythology and [[Greek tragedy]], including the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' for [[The Teaching Company]].
From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was a great [[craftsman]] and [[handyman]] and [[artisan]]; he made a wooden [[cow]] to mate with the bull to conceive the [[Minotaur]]; at the request of [[King]] [[Minos]], he built the [[labyrinth]] which kept the Minotaur and in which [[Theseus]] navigated.

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Daidalos [r]: From Greek mythology, he was a great craftsman and handyman and artisan; he made a wooden cow to mate with the bull to conceive the Minotaur; at the request of King Minos, he built the labyrinth which kept the Minotaur and in which Theseus navigated.