Daedalus
An Athenian inventor and crafts-
man of exquisite talent. Classical resources are
Apollodorus’s Library (three.15.8ff, Epitome 1.8–
15), Diodorus Siculus’s Library of History
(four.Seventy six.1–79.2), Homer’s Iliad (18.590),
Hyginus’s Fabulae (39, forty), Pliny’s Natural
History (7.Fifty six.168), Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(eight.152–262), and Virgil’s Aeneid (6.14–33).
Daedalus’s parentage is uncertain; his father
changed into either Palaemon, a sculptor, or Eupalamus,
an architect. Daedalus himself changed into an architect,
sculptor, and inventor. He built 3-dimen-
sional timber works, machines, and sculptures
(as an example, of Heracles). What is usually
agreed on is that Daedalus fled or turned into pressured
into exile from Athens to Crete for the mur-
