Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development

CHAPTER II

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THE EGYPTIAN LABYRINTH

(i) _Accounts of the Ancient Writers_

Enormous Edifices of Egypt--Herodotus: his Account of the Labyrinth, its Vastness and Complexity, and its Lake-- Strabo's Description--The Sacred Crocodiles--Accounts of Diodorus, Pomponius Mela, and Pliny 6-10