Daedalus was a highly respected and talented Athenian artisan descendent from the royal family of Cecrops, the mythical first king of Athens. He was known for his skill as an architect, sculpture, and inventor, and he produced many famous works.Despite his self-confidence, Daedalus once committed a crime of envy against Talus, his nephew and apprentice. Talus, who seemed destined to become as great an artisan as his uncle Daedalus, was inspired one day to invent the saw after having seen the way a snake used its jaws.Daedalus, momentarily stricken with jealousy, threw Talus off of the Acropolis. For this crime, Daedalus was exiled to Crete and placed in the service of King Minos, where he eventually had ason, Icarus, with the beautiful Naucrate, a mistress-slave of the King.
Minos called
on Daedalus to build the famous Labyrinth in order to imprison the
dreaded Minotaur.
The Minotaur was a monster with the head of a bull
and the body of a man. He was the son of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos,
and a bull that Poseidon had sent to Minos as a gift. Minos was shamed
by the birth of this horrible creature and resolved to imprison the
Minotaur in the Labyrinth where it fed on humans, which were taken as
"tribute" by Minos and sacrificed to the Minotaur in memory of his
fallen son Androgenos.
Theseus, the heroic King of
Athens, volunteered himself to be sent to the Minotaur in the hopes of
killing the beast and ending the "human tribute" that his city was
forced to pay Minos. When Theseus arrived to Crete, Ariadne,Minos's
daughter, fell in love with him and wished to help him survive the
Minotaur.Daedalus revealed the mystery of the Labyrinth to Ariadne who
in turn advised Theseus, thus enabling him to slay the Minotaur and
escape from the Labyrinth. When Minos found out what Daedalus had done
he was so enraged that he imprisoned Daedalus & Icarus in the
Labyrinth themselves.
Daedalus conceived to
escape from the Labyrinth with Icarus from Crete by constructing wings
and then flying to safety. He built the wings from feathers and wax,
and before the two set off he warned Icarus not to fly too low lest his
wings touch the waves and get wet, and not too high lest the sun melt
the wax. But the young Icarus, overwhelmed by the thrill of flying, did
not heed his father's warning, and flew too close to the sun whereupon
the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea.Daedalusescaped
to Sicily an......
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