He was the son of Metion and the grandson of Erechtheus, but was banished from his native city after murdering his nephew Perdix.  
He was granted asylum by King Cocalus of Sicily, whose daughters murdered the king who came looking for him.  He was found out by that king after he tied a string to an ant, who proceeded to thread a spiral shell.  He was the son of Metion and the grandson of Erechtheus, but was banished from his native city after murdering his nephew Perdix.  He enabled the birth of Asterios, or the Minotaur, by building a wooden cow in which Pasiphae could receive the affections of a white bull.  FTP, name this figure from Greek myth, who also created the prison which held the Minotaur and later himself, the Labyrinth.
He was granted asylum by King Cocalus of Sicily, whose daughters murdered the king who came looking for him.  
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