CUMA

Daedalus descends from the sky and erects a temple, dedicated to the god of the sun, to give thanks for not melting his wings. Daedalus himself engraves on the door of the temple, in gold, the whole story: the construction of the Labyrinth in Cnosso, the time he was a prisoner of the Minotaur, then how he fled, with Icarus, flying away on wings  of feathers and wax, how Icarus fell and of his arrival in Cuma. Virgil narrates in this way  how the Greek Cuma was founded, protected by Apollo.


                       Cuma – M. Horthemels – XV111 century


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