Led in the Trojan War by Meriones and Idomeneus, another ruler from here who received advice from its Cave of Zeus was scalded to death after revealing a fugitive using a spiral shell and a thread-that inventor had earlier designed two mechanisms used to avenge Androgeus, a prince of this polity.
In Book 13 of The Odyssey Odysseus tells Athena he is from this polity, and claims to have killed Orsilochus from this place. Led in the Trojan War by Meriones and Idomeneus, another ruler from here who received advice from its Cave of Zeus was scalded to death after revealing a fugitive using a spiral shell and a thread-that inventor had earlier designed two mechanisms used to avenge Androgeus, a prince of this polity. Site of Heracles's seventh labour, an abduction ending here led to the gifts Talos, Laelaps and an unerring javelin. For 10 points name this polity to which Europa was taken, home of a namesake bull, where Daedalus crafted a labyrinth for the Minotaur, ruled by Minos.
In Book 13 of The Odyssey Odysseus tells Athena he is from this polity, and claims to have killed Orsilochus from this place.
{Crete} (or {Knossos}, I guess)