The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus ' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses ( VIII: 183-235 ) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

The word labyrinthos ( Mycenaean daburinthos < ref > da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-yo po-ti-ni-ja ( KN Gg 702 ), daburinthoyo potnia meaning " mistress or lady of the Labyrinth ".</ ref >) may possibly show the same equivocation between initial d-and l-as is found in the variation of the early Hittite royal name Tabarna / Labarna ( where written t-may represent phonetic d -).

Oxford University geographer Nicholas Howarth believes that ' Evans ’ s hypothesis that the palace of Knossos is also the Labyrinth must be treated skeptically.

Australian author Sara Douglass incorporated some labyrinthine ideas in her series The Troy Game, in which the Labyrinth on Crete is one of several in the ancient world, created with the cities as a source of magical power.

* In the 2010 video game, God of War III ( which is loosely based on Greek mythology ), Daedalus and the Labyrinth are featured but instead of the Labyrinth imprisoning the Minotaur, it imprisons Pandora.

* Campe ( spelled " Kampê ") appears as a character in the fourth book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth, where she is a member of the Titan Kronos ' army of monsters.

Kerenyi observes that her name is merely an epithet and claims that she was originally the " Mistress of the Labyrinth ", both a winding dance-ground and in the Greek view a prison with the dreaded Minotaur at its centre.

* Ariadne is mentioned in the book The Battle of the Labyrinth which is the fourth part of the series Percy Jackson & the Olympians.

Ariadne's String also plays a role in the plot of the book where it is a magical artifact and will show anyone who holds it the way through the Labyrinth.

* " Ariadne " is a song by Dead Can Dance on their 1993 album Into the Labyrinth

* Ariadne's string is a plot device in The Battle of the Labyrinth, the fourth book of the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan.

* The myth of how Cocalus orchestrated Minos ' death is shown in the fourth book of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Battle of the Labyrinth, via a dream.

* The history of Carcassonne is re-told in the novel Labyrinth by Kate Mosse.

Keene's Nodens is the father to Pan and Labyrinth is the realm satyrs hail from in this work.

Labyrinth is a 1986 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas and based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud.

" Nina Darnton wrote that the plot of Labyrinth " is very similar to Outside Over There by Mr. Sendak, in which 9-year-old Ida's baby sister is stolen by the goblins.

" In Jones ' original script, Jareth merely seems " all powerful to begin with " and is actually using the Labyrinth to " keep people from getting to his heart.

Speaking in the Inside the Labyrinth documentary, Brian Henson explained that Weiser " does all the body movement and her head is inside the head.

The word labyrinthos ( Mycenaean daburinthos < ref > da-pu < sub > 2 </ sub >- ri-to-yo ( KN Gg 702 ), daburinthoyo potnia meaning " Lady of the Labyrinth ".</ ref >) is probably connected with the word labrys.

The dual role of Ariadne ( as Mistress of the Minoan Labyrinth and consort of Dionysus ) and the Minotaur story may derive from the mastery of mankind's animal nature.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

* René Bosch, Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators ( Amsterdam, 2007 )

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

Labyrinth of Transformations ( 1988 ), oil on canvas by Davide Tonato.

Examples include Piet Mondrian's Dam and Ocean ( 1915 ), Joan Miró's Labyrinth ( 1923 ), Pablo Picasso's Minotauromachia ( 1935 ), M. C. Escher's Relativity ( 1953 ), Friedensreich Hundertwasser's Labyrinth ( 1957 ), Jean Dubuffet's Logological Cabinet ( 1970 ), Richard Long's Connemara sculpture ( 1971 ), Joe Tilson's Earth Maze ( 1975 ), Richard Fleischner's Chain Link Maze ( 1978 ), István Orosz's Atlantis Anamorphosis ( 2000 ), Dmitry Rakov's Labyrinth ( 2003 ), and Labyrinthine projection by contemporary American artist Mo Morales ( 2000 ).

* In 1986, the film Labyrinth was released, directed by Jim Henson, and starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

* In 2006, the film Pan's Labyrinth was released, directed by Guillermo del Toro.

* " Underground " ( song ), by David Bowie, featured in the film Labyrinth

* Longleat, Wiltshire, England: hedge maze, designed by Greg Bright, 1978, and mirror maze, designed by Adrian Fisher ; Labyrinth of Love, Renaissance style Rose garden labyrinth designed by Graham Burgess.

He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete.

The success of these pavilions further influenced the 1967 Universal exhibition in Montreal, commonly referred to as Expo 67, where multi-screen highlights included In the Labyrinth, hailed by Time magazine as a " stunning visual display ," their review concluding: " such visual delights as Labyrinth ... suggest that cinema — the most typical of 20th century arts — has just begun to explore its boundaries and possibilities ," as well as A Place to Stand, which displayed Christopher Chapman's pioneering " multi-dynamic image technique " of shifting multiple images.

* " Demon Sweeney Todd ", a song written by the NWOBHM band, Saxon in their album Into The Labyrinth released in 2009

* Labyrinth by Lee Russell

* The Fantasy Trip: In The Labyrinth — Capsule Review, by John Laviolette on 2002-05-20

* The Fantasy Trip: In the Labyrinth — Playtest Review, by Travis Casey on 2002-08-18

He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.

Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit multicursal patterns, the unicursal seven-course " Classical " design became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and became widely used to represent the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze.

In 1898, the Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities described the structure as " the largest of all the temples of Egypt, the so-called Labyrinth, of which, however, only the foundation stones have been preserved.

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From Classical times through the Renaissance, the Minotaur appears at the center of many depictions of the Labyrinth.