Daedalus
Daidalos
Athenian craftsman of the royal line — to mortal technique what Hephaestus is to the gods. At Athens he murdered his nephew Perdix (named Talos or Calos in alternate traditions) out of jealousy after the boy invented the saw by imitating a fish's spine, and was exiled to Crete. There Minos set him to build first the hollow wooden cow in which Pasiphaë conceived the Minotaur, and then the Labyrinth to contain the creature. When Ariadne asked him the way out for Theseus's sake, Minos imprisoned Daedalus with his son Icarus — he built wings of wax and feathers and the two flew westward; Icarus fell into the sea that bears his name. Daedalus landed at Cumae in Italy, dedicated his wings to Apollo, and went on to King Cocalus in Sicily, where Cocalus's daughters scalded Minos to death in the bath when the Cretan king came hunting his architect.
Origin
Of the Athenian royal house — son of Metion in one tradition, or, in the Attic civic line, a descendant of Erechtheus through Eupalamus.
