Daedalus

Designs the Minotaur’s labyrinth.

Genealogy

Alcippe

Eupalamus

Perdix

Dipoenus, Icarus, Scyllis

Places
  1. Areopagus
  2. Athens
  3. Camicus
  4. Crete
  5. Pisa
Events
  1. Theseus and the Minotaur
  2. Daedalus makes a statue in honour of Hercules
  3. Daedalus constructs a hollow wooden cow to assist Pasiphae
  4. Daedalus is banished from Athens for murder
  5. Minos and Daedalus enclose the Minotaur in the labyrinth
  6. Daedalus builds the Labyrinth
  7. Ariadne persuades Daedalus to tell her how Theseus might escape the labyrinth
  8. Minos shuts Daedalus and Icarus in the labyrinth
  9. Daedalus and Icarus escape the labyrinth using wings
  10. Daedalus arrives in Sicily
  11. Minos arrives at the court of Cocalus
  12. Minos demands that Cocalus surrender Daedalus
  13. Minotaur lives in a labyrinth constructed by Daedalus
  14. Daedalus sees Talos sawing a thin stick with a snake’s jawbone
  15. Daedalus throws Talos down the acropolis fearing that he might surpass him
  16. Daedalus flees from Athens
  17. Daedalus is tried and condemned after Talos’s corpse is discovered
  18. Daedalus goes to Minos
  19. Ariadne askes Daedalus how to help Theseus escape the labyrinth
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 6.3
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.4
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 15.8
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.8
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.12
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.13
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.14
  8. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.15
  9. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 18, Section 590
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 21.4
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 26.4
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 27.1
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 4.5
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 15.1
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 17.6
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 25.13
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 2.8
  18. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 3.4
  19. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 3.7
  20. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 6, Section 6.1
  21. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 4.4
  22. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 4.7
  23. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 16.3
  24. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 35.2
  25. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 46.2
  26. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 8, Section 53.8
  27. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 3.2
  28. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 11.4
  29. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 39.8
  30. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 40.3
  31. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 9, Section 40.4
  32. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 9.6
  33. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 10, Section 17.4
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