Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Figures

    Daedalus

    mythological figure · 8 works · 13 mentions · 16 anchored passages

    Daedalian art

    in the texts

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Mythical craftsman who built wings for himself and his son Icarus.

    And for safety's sake he resembles in nature neither eagles nor cranes nor any other winged kind, but rather one might liken him to the violent and unnatural flight of Icarus, who attempted a device Daedalus could not contrive.
    oration 4
    such men were Pheidias and Alcamenes and Polycleitus, and besides Aglaophon and Polygnotus and Zeuxis, and earlier than they Daedalus.
    oration 12
    But that it might even be of the ancient Daedalian art, what suffering would have made it depart from your city, about which they say the two gods strove, Poseidon and the Sun, the one master of fire, the other of water?
    oration 37

    ProtrepticusLate Antiquity · Greek

    Legendary craftsman whose wooden cow, made for Pasiphae, deceived a wild bull through artistic likeness.

    but the cow of Daedalus, made of wood, drew a wild bull to her, and the art, deceiving him, forced the beast to mount a woman in love.
    protrepticus

    HecubaClassical · Greek

    Legendary craftsman invoked by Hecuba as an image for the impossible multiplication of pleading limbs she wishes she had.

    would I had a voice in arms, in hands, in hair and feet, placed there by the arts of Daedalus or some god, that all together they might with tears embrace your knees, bringing a thousand pleas to bear on you!
    hecuba

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    Legendary craftsman sought by Minos in Sicania.

    Now Minos, it is said, went to Sicania, which is now called Sicily, in search for Daedalus, and perished there by a violent death.
    book 7

    IliadClassical · Greek

    Legendary craftsman invoked as the maker of a dancing-floor at Knossos, used as a simile for the shield's imagery.

    Furthermore he wrought a green, like that which Daedalus once made in Knossos for lovely Ariadne.
    book 18

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    Legendary craftsman invoked as an exemplar of skillfully made diagrams, used in a simile for the visible heavens

    Then, said I, “we must use the blazonry of the heavens as patterns to aid in the study of those realities, just as one would do who chanced upon diagrams drawn with special care and elaboration by Daedalus or some other craftsman or painter.
    book 7

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Mythological craftsman credited with inventing the saw, used as a foil to true wisdom.

    How, I pray you, does it agree, that you should admire both Diogenes and Daedalus?
    letter 90

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Mythic craftsman used as an example of wisdom bringing enslavement and loss.

    have you not heard how Daedalus was seized by Minos because of his wisdom, and was forced to be his slave, and was robbed of his country and his liberty, and essaying to escape with his son, lost the boy and could not save himself, but was carried off to the barbarians and again lived as a slave there?
    book 4