Kokalos (Latin Cocalus) is the legendary king of the Sicani whose court at the rock-citadel of Kamikos, near later Akragas, is the setting of the oldest Greek story told of pre-Greek Sicily. When Daedalus fled from Crete, Kokalos took him in, and Sicilian tradition credited the craftsman with marvellous works for his host, above all the impregnable citadel of Kamikos where the king kept his treasure. Minos pursued the fugitive with a great fleet and unmasked him by offering a reward to whoever could thread a spiral seashell, a riddle only Daedalus could solve; Kokalos then promised the king everything, received him as a guest, and destroyed him in the bath, either keeping him in the scalding water himself, as Diodorus tells it, or through his daughters, who at Daedalus' prompting poured boiling water over the guest. Herodotus already knew that Minos died a violent death at Kamikos in Sikania and that the Cretans besieged the town for five years in vain. The tale was dramatized in Sophocles' lost Men of Kamikos and Aristophanes' lost comedy Kokalos, and its possible kernel of Bronze Age Aegean contact with Sicily has been debated since T. J. Dunbabin's classic study; the Palermo journal of ancient Sicilian history is named Kokalos after the king.