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a son of Iasus, [1] or; the son of Lycaon, which would make him the brother of Daunius and Peucetius (who went as leaders of a colony to Italy), [2] or; a Cretan, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges, or; a son of Daedalus either: by his wife, thus making him a full-brother of Icarus; [3] by another Cretan ...
Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1645, by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) After Theseus and Ariadne eloped together, [38] Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos in the labyrinth that he had built. [39] He could not leave Crete by sea, as King Minos kept a strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched.
Before escaping, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too low or the water would soak the feathers and not to fly too close to the sun or the heat would melt the wax. [3] Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned.
Icarus (Ἴκαρος), the son of the master craftsman Daedalus; Iolaus (Ἰόλαος), nephew of Heracles who aided his uncle in one of his Labors; Jason (Ἰάσων), leader of the Argonauts; Meleager (Μελέαγρος), a hero who sailed with the Argonauts and killed the Calydonian boar
Lycastus had a son named Minos, after his grandfather, born by Lycastus' wife, Ida, daughter of Corybas. "Minos II"—the "bad" king Minos—is the son of this Lycastus, and was a far more colorful character than his father and grandfather. This is the Minos in the myths of Theseus, Pasiphaë, the Minotaur, Daedalus, Glaucus, and Nisus.
Pliny the Elder's Natural History (36.90) lists the legendary Smilis, reputed to be a contemporary of Daedalus, together with the historical mid-sixth-century BC architects and sculptors Rhoikos and Theodoros as two of the makers of the Lemnian labyrinth, which Andrew Stewart [33] regards as "evidently a misunderstanding of the Samian temple's ...
After the escape of Daedalus and his son Icarus from King Minos's imprisonment, and the subsequent death of Icarus, Daedalus arrived in Sicily, where he was welcomed by Cocalus. Minos was, however, determined to find Daedalus, and he travelled from city to city offering a challenge: he presented a spiral seashell and asked for it to be strung ...
After that, he was exiled to the court of Minos: "After the corpse was discovered, Daedalus was tried...and went into exile at the court of Minos." [6] In some accounts, Athena intervened of murder and turned Talos/Perdix into a partridge to save his life. [9] According to Ovid, that partridge later watched the death and burial of Icarus with glee.