Editing Daedalus (section)

=== The shell riddle ===
After burying Icarus, Daedalus traveled to Camicus in [[Sicily]], where he stayed as a guest under the protection of King Cocalus.<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 260|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028:book=8:card=260|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> There Daedalus built a temple to [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]], and hung up his wings as an offering to the god. In an invention of [[Virgil]] ([[Aeneid]] VI), Daedalus flies to [[Cumae]] and founds his temple there, rather than in Sicily.<ref>author, Virgil. ''The Aeneid''. {{ISBN|978-0-300-25875-2}}. {{OCLC|1231607822}}.</ref>

[[Minos]], meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by traveling from city to city asking a riddle. He presented a spiral seashell and asked for a string to be run through it. When he reached Camicus, King Cocalus, knowing Daedalus would be able to solve the riddle, accepted the shell and gave it to Daedalus. Daedalus tied the string to an ant which, lured by a drop of honey at one end, walked through the seashell stringing it all the way through. With the riddle solved, Minos realized that Daedalus was in the court of King Cocalus and insisted he be handed over. Cocalus agreed to do so, but convinced Minos to take a bath first. In the bath, Cocalus' daughters killed Minos, possibly by pouring boiling water over his body.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Epitome, book E, chapter 1|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=1&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> In some versions, it is Cocalus that kills Minos in the bath.<ref>{{Cite web|title=W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus, BOOK VII, chapter 170|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0028:book=7:chapter=170&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Other variants say that Daedalus himself poured the boiling water, or that he had built the pipes that could supply hot water to the bath and this was used to instead pour boiling water on him.<ref>{{Cite web |title=King Minos - Experience Creta |url=http://www.experiencecreta.com/en/king-minos.php |access-date=2022-05-13 |website=www.experiencecreta.com |archive-date=2022-08-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220816032409/http://experiencecreta.com/en/king-minos.php |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{Dubious|date=May 2022}}