Daidalos/Definition

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. Source: Elizabeth Vandiver, Classics 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.