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Talos (inventor)

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103:. When Talos had come by chance upon a jawbone of a snake and with it had sawn through a small piece of wood, he tried to imitate the jaggedness of the serpent's teeth. Consequently, he fashioned a saw out of iron, by means of which he would saw the lumber which he used in his work, and for this accomplishment he gained the reputation of having discovered a device which would be of great service to the art of building. He likewise discovered also the tool for describing a circle and certain other cunningly contrived devices whereby he gained for himself great fame. 106:
But Daedalus, becoming jealous of the youth and feeling that his fame was going to rise far above that of his teacher, treacherously slew the youth. And being detected in the act of burying him, he was asked what he was burying, whereupon he replied, I am inhuming a snake. Here a man may well wonder
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at the strange happening, that the same animal that led to the thought of devising the saw should also have been the means through which the murder came to be discovered. And Daedalus, having been accused and adjudged guilty of murder by the court of the
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While he was still a lad in years, Talos/Perdix was receiving his education in the home of Daedalus. Being more gifted than his teacher he invented the potter's wheel and according to
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with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
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with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
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includes a partridge on a tree, presumably representing the transformed Talos. However, like the rest of the characters, it is yet to react to the fall.
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to save his life. According to Ovid, that partridge later watched the death and burial of Icarus with glee.
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Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826.
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translated by Brookes More (1859–1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922.
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This article is about the mythological Greek inventor. For other uses, see
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Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892.
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intervened of murder and turned Talos/Perdix into a
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Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library
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Index

Talos (mythology)
Greek mythology
/ˈtlɒs/
Ancient Greek
Athenian
Ovid
spine
saw
Areopagites
Attica
Minos
Athena
partridge
Bruegel
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Tzetzes
Chiliades 1.19 line 493


Pausanias
Diodorus Siculus
4.76.3
Ovid
Metamorphoses
4.76.5


Apollodorus
4.76.6
4.76.7

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