Daedalus
was an Athenian artist and inventor who had learned his art with the goddess
Athena. However, Daedalus had a nephew, who being still very young he invented
the saw, the potter's wheel and the compass.
Daedalus was very jalous and he decided to kill Talos. He threw him from the
top of the temple of Athenea.
Daedalus,
scared, ran away from Athens and took refuge on the island of Crete in the
court of king Minos. There, he had a son (Icarus) with a slave. Poseidon took
offense of this and he offered a bull to
Minos. Poseidon wanted Pasiphae (Mino’s wife) to fall in love with the bull,
and so it was. Daedalus designed a suit to the queen, at its request, with
which he could join with the bull in a romantic evening. And from that meeting
was born the Minotaur (bull's head and human’s body). King Minos asked Daedalus to
create a maze to imprison the creature of which he was embarrassed. It took five
years to finish it.
Minos didn’t
want anyone to know anything about the existence of the labyrinth so he locked
them in the maze.
They tried to escape but it was too
complicated, so Daedalus had the idea of making two pairs of wings of feathers and wax to escape flying.
They took
flight and when they took off, the son jumped a lot because he felt free. Every
time he flew higher so Daedalus told him that if he went much more higher his wings
would melt. However, his son was excited and believing he was a bird he flew higher.
The wax began to melt and, at last, he fell into the sea and he drowned.
Daedalus
arrived safely in Sicily and took refuge in the court of King Cocalus.
Minos pursued him, but Daedalus died while he
was taking a bath in the palace of hot water pipes. Minos killed him with
boiling water.
Here I leave some artistic expressions of this myth:
Natalia Valera Iniesta
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