Perdix also put two pieces of iron together, connecng them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses. According to Ovid, imitang it, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. Walking on the seashore, he picked up the spine of a sh. Perdix was an apt scholar and showed striking evidence of ingenuity. His sister had placed her son Perdix under his charge to be taught the mechanical arts. But Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. For a short me, his apprence was his sister's son Perdix. His father's identy was never precisely established but many claim that it was Meon, son of Erectheus. Alcippe, Merope and Iphinoe are all menoned at dierent mes as being his mother. His homeland was Athens but his parentage is uncertain. Daedalus built the maze to imprison the Minotaur, half man - half bull. With countless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, the Labyrinth appeared to have neither beginning nor end. The infamous Labyrinth was so cunningly craed that Daedalus himself could barely nd his way out aer construcng it. Among the many invenons and creaons craed by Daedalus were the wooden cow he constructed for the queen Pasiphae, the Labyrinth of the Minotaur at Knossos on the island of Crete, arcial wings for himself and his son Icarus, and he was even said to have invented images. Daedalus - his name means "skilled worker" - was a famous architect, invent or, and master crasman known for having created many objects that gure prominently in various myths.