We know the “staff” of the labyrinth from the Greek mythology: King Minos of Crete, his wife Pasiphaë, her daughter Ariadne, the hero Theseus, the master builder and inventor Daedalos, his son Icarus and the impossible mythological monster Minotaur, part person, part animal for whom the labyrinth was built as a prison.
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The Labyrinth of the Minotaur
Posted in History, Labyrinth, Report, Video, tagged Crete, Daedalos, Gortys, Knossos, Labyrinth Lost, Minos, Sir Arthur John Evans, Theseus, Thomas Waldmann, University of Oxford on November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Canterbury Labyrinth at the University of Kent
Posted in Labyrinth, Report, Video, tagged Andrew Wiggins, Creative Campus Initiative, creative learning, Jan Sellers, Jay Edge, Jeff Saward, Patricia Debney, turf labyrinth, university on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The University of Kent in south-east England owns a permanent labyrinth since October 2008. So it is the first University in England which has beside two canvas labyrinths indoors a permanent labyrinth on the campus, on-site and outdoors.
On Youtube you can watch a short video which is classified in the category Comedy. Let us suppose that as expression of the [...]
It is a Child’s Play to Draw a Labyrinth
Posted in Design, Labyrinth, Video, tagged drawing on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
… if one knows how
We had that already here.
Now Paula and Gernot Candolini are showing us in YouTube how to do that.
Spring Festivity at Steigra
Posted in History, Labyrinth, Report, Video, tagged spring ceremony, Steigra, Sweden Ring on May 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of the four historical labyrinths in Germany is situated at Steigra in the Burgenlandkreis district in Saxony-Anhalt. It is also named Sweden Ring or Troy Town. The layout is the classical type with 11 circuits. The exact time of origin is uncertain. Much points to the 17th century, in addition, an older origin would [...]

