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Daedalus
The Athenian master-craftsman who built the Cretan labyrinth and devised the means for Pasiphae's union with the bull.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.90.14 Daedalus
The mythical Athenian craftsman and inventor (labyrinth, saw, wings); here the type of the clever artificer, set against Diogenes the sage.
- Hercules on Oeta §599 Daedalus kept to the shores
Daedalus, the master craftsman who flew the middle course and survived, unlike his son.
- Oedipus §892 Daedalus
The cunning craftsman who, flying a middle course, survived the flight his son did not.
- Phaedra §111 Daedalus
The Athenian craftsman who built the Cretan labyrinth and the device for Pasiphae.