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Post by angelusfan3 on Aug 15, 2004 9:37:14 GMT -5
i have to go with c69, we want details
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Post by Daelus on Aug 15, 2004 9:50:32 GMT -5
Actually, , I don't really remember that much about him, I don't do Latin anymore. I think he was some guy who accidentally threw his son off a building? But I'm not sure. He might possibly have had something to do with that Icarus guy. With the wings? I don't know. Now I'm all embarrassed that I can't remember. And there isn't a smiley for that! Oh well. I'll use this one again:
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Post by Daelus on Aug 15, 2004 9:54:41 GMT -5
I have just looked it up and he indeed helped Icarus to fly. He created the labyrinth for the Minotaur, his son was Icarus. And apparently..it was not an accident (the throwing his son off, who was actually his nephew)!
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Post by Charisma69 on Aug 15, 2004 9:56:30 GMT -5
That's okay, we don't always remember everything we learned in school.
I guess we could look it up. It's not like we don't know how or anything.
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Post by Charisma69 on Aug 15, 2004 9:57:39 GMT -5
Hey thanks, you already looked it up while I was writing my last post.
That's why I love us so much. We are all about the knowledge.
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Post by angelusfan3 on Aug 15, 2004 10:07:53 GMT -5
ok since you dont remeber the details i'll have to provide them, there kinda long
Daedalus was a famous architect, inventor, and master craftsman. He created many objects that figure prominently in various myths. Among his inventions and creations were the wooden cow he constructed for the queen Pasiphae, the Labyrinth of the Minotaur at Knossos, artificial wings for himself and his son Icarus, and he was even said to have invented images.
His homeland was Athens but his parentage is uncertain. Alcippe, Merope and Iphinoe are all mentioned at different times as being his mother. His father's identity was never precisely established but many claim that it was Metion, son of Erectheus.
For a short time, his apprentice was his sister's son Perdix. Other sources claim that his apprentice was his nephew Talos. At the age of twelve Talos displayed a skill that nearly rivaled his mentor's. When Daedalus feared that the boy would surpass him in talent, he murdered the boy by tossing him from the Acropolis of Athens. He was then tried at the Areiopagus, which was the ancient Greek court, and banished from his home city of Athens.
He fled to the island of Crete, where he began to work at the court of King Minos and Queen Pasiphae, in the magnificent palace of Knossos. There he constructed a wooden cow for the queen to hide in to satisfy her amorous longings for a white bull sent by Poseidon, and by which she became pregnant with the Minotaur.
When the Minotaur was born, Daedalus built the Labyrinth to contain the monstrous half-man, half-bull. For years Minos demanded a tribute of youths from Athens to feed the creature. Eventually, the hero Theseus came to Crete to attempt to slay the Minotaur. Ariadne, daughter of Minos and Pasiphae, fell in love with Theseus and asked Daedalus to help him. Daedalus gave her a flaxen thread for Theseus to tie to the door of the Labyrinth as he entered, and by which he could find his way out after killing the monster. Theseus succeeded, and escaped Crete with Ariadne. Minos, enraged at the loss of his daughter, not to mention the killing of the Minotaur, shut Daedalus and his son Icarus into the Labyrinth.
Daedalus managed to get out of the Labyrinth - after all, he had built it and knew his way around. Daedalus decided that he and his son Icarus had to leave Crete and get away from Minos, before he brought them harm. However, Minos controlled the sea around Crete and there was no route of escape there. Daedalus realized that the only way out was by air.
To escape, Daedalus built wings for himself and Icarus, fashioned with feathers held together with wax. Daedalus warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, as it would melt his wings, and not too close to the sea, as it would dampen them and make it hard to fly.
They successfully flew from Crete, but Icarus grew exhilarated by the thrill of flying and began getting careless. Flying too close to the sun god Helios, the wax holding together his wings melted from the heat and he fell to his death, drowning in the sea. The Icarian Sea, where he fell, was named after him and it is said that Heracles (Hercules), who passed by, gave him burial. Daedalus lamented his dead son and then continued to Sicily, where he came to stay at the court of Cocalus in a place called Camicus.
King Minos then went in pursuit of Daedalus, hoping to trick the great inventor into revealing himself. At each city he visited, Minos offered a reward to whomever could thread a spiral seashell. Eventually, Minos came to Camicus in Sicily and presented the contest at Cocalus' court. Cocalus knew of Daedalus' talents, and gave the shell to him. The clever Daedalus tied the string to an ant, place the ant at one end of the shell, and allowed the ant to walk through the spiral chambers until it came out the other end.
When Minos saw that someone had solved the puzzle, he demanded that Cocalus surrender Daedalus. Cocalus promised to do so, but he persuaded Minos to take a bath and stay for some entertainment. Minos agreed, and was consequently murdered by Cocalus' daughters, who had been so taken by the toys and gifts which Daedalus had bestowed upon them and did not want any harm to come to him.
Daedalus eventually left Camicus, much to the dismay of king Cocalus and his daughters, and ended up in Sardinia with a group led by Iolaus, who was a nephew of Heracles.
but that the story
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Post by Charisma69 on Aug 15, 2004 10:27:27 GMT -5
That is a great story. I always loved mythology, but it's been so long since I've studied it.
If I get a chance I may take a mythology class for fun before I graduate. It's always fascinating.
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Post by angelusfan3 on Aug 15, 2004 10:31:09 GMT -5
i hope to teach it to high school when all the smoke clares but i don't know if it possable
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Post by Disgruntled Gremlin on Aug 15, 2004 15:13:26 GMT -5
(claps at the storytelling) Yay! Mythology!
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Post by IllyriaWorshipper on Aug 15, 2004 19:58:30 GMT -5
im with C69, i love mythology. at my school we have this class about heros and villains and its all about well heros and villains from different time periods and right now we are watching troy and it has so much mythology to it and i know most of it already and its now just filling in the gaps. learning who is who and what they did, if they had powers or not, i love it. my friends teese me about it but i always come out on top because i know more than them and when they dont get a thing right or something. they always come crawling back because when they need help because i have the answers.
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Post by IllyriaWorshipper on Aug 15, 2004 20:48:59 GMT -5
since we have been talking myths instead of where we got our usernames from i thought i would look up the orgin of the ancient greek gods. now when i say the word hyperion you think of angels hotel he stayed at right. well there is a titan called hyperion. Hyperion is the Titan of light, an early sun god. He is the son of Gaea and Uranus. He married his sister Theia. Their children Helius (the sun), Selene (the moon), and Eos (the dawn). Ancient Greek God Information www.hol.gr/greece/ancgods.htm
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Post by Daelus on Aug 15, 2004 23:14:43 GMT -5
You can learn about it in school? That's so much better than over here, where the only bits of mythology we get are stuck in Latin class, which is mostly the language! The horribly annoying language.
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Post by angelusfan3 on Aug 16, 2004 0:40:36 GMT -5
hey be thankful you can learn latin i would have killed (joking) to be able to take it but all they have here is spanish, german, or french
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Post by Daelus on Aug 16, 2004 1:02:16 GMT -5
I am, a bit. I took Latin for a while. But I wasn't very good at it after the first year stuff. So it would have been nice to be able to learn about all the mythology without stressing over the language all the time.
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Post by angelusfan3 on Aug 16, 2004 1:28:36 GMT -5
sadly to understand mythology one has to know some latin cause thats what it was writen in, in the first place
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