Daedalus in A Sentence

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    As the lame smith he reminds us of Hephaestus, and in his flight with wings of Daedalus escaping from Minos.

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    Daedalus is another multi-OS emulator that works well on quicker PCs.

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    From 1716 to 1718 he published a scientific periodical, called Daedalus hyperboreus, a record of mechanical and mathematical inventions and discoveries.

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    Here, as in Crete, Daedalus executed great works like the temple of Eryx, and it was on Sicilian soil that Minos, engaged in a western campaign, was said to have met with a violent death at the hands of the native king Kokalos (Cocalus) and his daughters.

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    In fact the name Daedalus is.

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    It was with Sicily, however, that the later Italian history of Minos and his great craftsman Daedalus was extension.

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    Later critics, judging from their own notions of the natural course of development in art, ascribed to Daedalus such improvements as separating the legs.

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    Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

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    The altar used at the festival in honour of Daedalus on Mt.

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    The boss of Daedalus Computing Ltd asked me to redesign the company logo.

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    The extraordinary architectural skill, the sanitary and hydraulic science revealed in details of the building, bring us at the same time face to face with the power of mechanical invention with which Daedalus was credited.

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    The labyrinth from which Theseus escaped by means of the clew of Ariadne, was built by Daedalus, a most skillful artificer.

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    The palace, with its wonderful works of art, executed for Minos by the craftsman Daedalus, has ceased to belong to the realms of fancy.

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    The story in its main outlines bears a striking resemblance to the myth of Daedalus.

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    These legends seem primarily to belong to Crete; and the Athenian element in them which connected Daedalus with the royal house of Erechtheus is a later fabrication.

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    This Daedalus must not be confused with Daedalus of Sicyon, a great sculptor of the early part of the 4th century B.C., none of whose works is extant.

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    Though deeply missed, the Prometheus design contributed to future vessels including the Daedalus, the Odyssey, the Korolev, the Apollo and the George Hammond.

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    To Daedalus the Greeks of the historic age were in the habit of attributing buildings, and statues the origin of which was lost in the past, and which had no inscription belonging to them.