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Daedalus

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Canonical name
Daedalus
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Individual
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Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Cnossus1 observation
·Simile

Within the comparison, Daedalus is said to have made the earlier green in Cnossus.

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“green, like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne”

Claims

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·Direct

The narrator says Daedalus once made a green at Cnossus for lovely Ariadne.

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“like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne”

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·Simile
“like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne”

Passage preview

Book 18 · Passage 45

Furthermore he wrought a green, like that which Daedalus once made in Cnossus for lovely Ariadne. Hereon there danced youths and maidens whom all would woo, with their hands on one another’s wrists. The maidens wore robes of light linen, and the youths well woven shirts that were slightly oiled. The girls were crowned with garlands, while the young men had daggers of gold that hung by silver baldrics; sometimes they would dance deftly in a ring with merry twinkling feet, as it were a potter sitting at his work and making trial of his wheel to see whether it will run, and sometimes they would go all in line with one another, and much people was gathered joyously about the green. There was a bard also to sing to them and play his lyre, while two tumblers went about performing in the midst of them when the man struck up with his tune.