Daedalus

Daedalus was a Greek inventor, who was exiled in Crete. He created the underground maze, the Labyrinth. He was possibly instructed by Athena, the goddess.
Daedalus is the greek name for the title of 'Divine Mason/Architect'. The Sanskrit term for the same title is 'Viswakarma'.

Daedalus is a mythical figure, not a historical one. The story comes from a time when Crete was the dominant power in the Greek-speaking world, prior to the Trojan War and the emergence of Athens as a major city.

The Allusion refers to one following the rules or laws of society. The rule of law was put into place to protect us. In this case, Icarus refused to listen to his father and got caught up in the glory of flight. He was told to stay away from the sun but ignored his father, Deadalus, and few to towards the sun. This resulted into the glue melting from the wings which fell off his back and eventuality Icarus's death into the ocean.

His name was Daedalus and he was a Greek artist and inventor. He designed the labyrinth on Crete in which the Minotaur was kept, a white bull presented to King Minos as a sacrificial gift from Poseidon but Minos kept the gift for himself. Seeking revenge for the slight, Poseidon willed it that Minos wife would lust after the bull. The labyrinth was built to contain the bull and keep Minos wife away from it. King Minos, fearing Daedalus would spread the knowledge of the labyrinth made him and his son Icarus prisoners in a tower in Crete.

Not happy with imprisonment at all, Daedalus built himself a pair of wings based on his observations of birds and how they flew. He fastened the larger feathers together with string and the smaller feathers with wax. Once finished he tested his new invention only to discover he could soar through the sky like a bird. He then built his son a pair of wings and taught him how to fly. The plan was to fly out of Crete and across the sea to safety and Daedalus warned his son Icarus not to soar too high as the sun would melt the wax or not to fly to low as the foam of the sea would weigh the feathers down and make the wings useless.

Icarus, being young and impetuous ignored his fathers pleas to show restraint, and upon finding his newfound freedom kept soaring ever higher until the heat of the sun finally melted the wax that kept the wings together and Icarus plummeted to his death leaving a grieving and bitter Daedalus to find safety alone in either Sicily or Cumae depending on whose story you're reading.

The irony of this myth today is that it is Icarus who is remembered and known, and while those who know the myth know it was Icarus father who created the wings, few remember his name. Icarus was used by poets throughout antiquity and it was ultimately the fifteenth century Spanish poets relying on the story as told by Ovid who solidified Icarus' fame fashioning him as some sort of audacious hero who's own hubris brought about his tragic end. The myth more times than not is interpreted to demonstrate the folly of man and his insatiable drive to be better than, to be more than who we are. Icarus is used as cautionary tale as to our own limitations. The sad irony of this is that Daedalus survived and where Icarus failed, Daedalus succeeded.

Why is it today that the failure of this myth is better known than the one who succeeded? Why is Icarus such a prominent literary name and Daedalus not? I do not know the answer to that question but I am grateful for the question that was asked as it gave me an opportunity to praise the one worthy of praise.

That is an undisclosed secret.

Well, since Daedalus was human, all of his qualities were human qualities.

It was to imprison his wife Pasiphae's son, the half-man, half-bull monster, the Minotaur.

If you work really hard, and if you aren't selfish, you can leave all your problems and troubles behind. Take advice from your elders. And, that if you try too hard to avoid danger, than you might put yourself in more of it.

There are no authors of the Greek myths, they were age old and handed over from generation to generation.

he did not have a roman name. he had the same name for both rome and Greece

Icarus

I think it would be myth or legend.

To escape from his country. The king locked his son and him in the country. So daedalus escaped from his country with his son. Unfortuanetely, his son's wing's wax was melted by the sun, so he did not survive.

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He's not a god, so he wouldn't really have a symbol. Although if you really needed a symbol, you could put either the Labyrinth, wings, or a bird as one of the symbols...

~Amber(:

Daedalus created wings made from feathers for him and his son Icarus. They flew off to escape the prison. Daedalus warned Icarus that if he flew to high, the seal that he used to keep the feathers together would melt and he would fall, but he forgot his father's warning after he got the thrill of flying. Icarus flew to high and just like his father warned, the wings' wax melted and he fell to his death in the ocean. Daedalus thought the death of his son was a result of defying the god's imprisonment so he took off his wings and never used them again; living alone with the loss of his son.

He initially went to Kymi, and then travelled to Sicily.

There are many different versions of the Greek myth or story of the inventor, architect and craftsman Daedalus and his son Icarus on their escape from Crete. This is a extract from one of my other answers: Daedalus was a famous master inventor and craftsman. He had fled to the island of Crete and started work for King Minos, during around 1325 BC . He created many objects for the King, that appear in various myths and legends. One of his creations was the Labyrinth of the Minotaur. Locked away inside the Labyrinth, a gigantic underground maze of misleading and seemingly endless tunnels, was a horrific monster. It was the Minotaur, a half man - half bull, bloodthirsty creature. It was the son of the kings wife, Queen Pasiphae. Daedalus had constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her love for a white bull sent by Poseidon. From this she became pregnant with the Minotaur. When the Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to imprison the monster inside. The monster was always hungry for flesh, so King Minos demanded that seven men and seven women were sent to him each year. They were sent one by one into the labyrinth to be served to the Minotaur All got lost and were eaten by the Minotaur, no-one escaped. Some people lasted only hours, but some took days to find their way through the pitch black tunnels to the Minotaur This all continued for about twenty years until one brave hero, named Theseus, asked to be one of the seven men sent to the labyrinth; as he believed that he could boldly slay the beast within the maze and escape successfully, sparing the lives of fourteen innocent people each year. When Theseus set foot on the island of Crete he was introduced to the king's daughter, princess Ariadne, they instantly fell in love with each other. Ariadne gave Theseus a sword to slay the Minotaur and a large ball of string to tie to the door of the labyrinth and unroll as he journeyed through the tunnels, then follow to find his way out with. Theseus successfully slayed the monster and escaped the labyrinth, he then fled the lands of Minos with Ariadne by his side. King Minos was furious, not only had Theseus survived, but he had killed the Minotaur and stolen his daughter from him. Minos blamed the outcome on Daedalus for badly creating the labyrinth, so he decided to lock Daedalus and his son Icarus away in the labyrinth (and in some versions a tall tower). Daedalus had built the labyrinth so he therefor knew his way around. His son and him ventured through the tunnels, engulfed in darkness and thick silence. They made there way out and hid in temporary safety...

...This story is a famous Greek legend, but it is only a fictional story. Greek legends were told within the people of Greece as a pass-time. Greek people believed in many gods who lived at the summit of mount olympus. They had a god for almost everything, as a way of explaining everyday happenings that were beyond their knowledge. These gods hated humans. This formed a good base for their stories. There were many parts of these myths that contained forms of fantasy... Daedalus also featured in many other greek tales and myths. In ancient Greek; Daedalus means "Cunning Worker" and so he was, Daedalus was a well known craftsman and inventor,. All statues had their arms stuck stiffly to their sides until Daedalus made statues with their bodies in natural positions and, some people say he even gave them the power of being able to move, it was said that they were so realistic that if they werent chained up then they would run away! Daedalus claimed to be the inventor of the saw. Credit for this went to his nephew instead. Daedalus murdered him in jealousy. Because of this, he fled to Athens to work for King Minos on the island of Crete... ...By Jamie Gerrard Lievesley

The main story revolves around the attempted escape of the craftsman Daedalus and his son Icarus from King Minos of Crete, who is keeping the two trapped so that they cannot spread word of the Minotaur (the half-man-half-bull creature kept in the Labyrinth which Daedalus built). The father creates wings for them both, since Minos keeps all paths by land or sea barred, which they place on their shoulders and start to fly. However Icarus, driven by desire and the recklesness of youth, flies too high, against his father's warnings, and the sun melts the wax of the wings. They collapse and the young boy plummets to his death on what is now called the Icarian Sea.

The moral of the tale is to a) follow instructions and b) observe moderation, avoiding extremes.

What part of speech is used in this sentence 'Daedalus and his son Icarus' were imprisoned in a great maze.

Both show Icarus drowning after the wax holding his wings together has melted. [APEX]