Daedalus
Fictional Character
Daedalus''This article is about the mythological character. For other uses see Daedalus (disambiguation). Daedalus constructs wings for his son, Icarus, after a Roman relief in the Villa Albani, Rome (Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888) In Greek... In this article: Daedalus, Minos, Cocalus, Pasiphae, Poseidon, Homer, and Crete |
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Wikipedia | October 25, 2009
MIT Daedalus
Daedalus 87: Crashed on Rogers Dry Lake on 17 February, 1988, and was rebuilt as a backup. Daedalus 88: Crashed in the ocean near Santorini. Both Daedalus 87 and 88 weighed 31 kg (69 lb). Light Eagle (known to the flight crew as "MLE",...
In this article: Santorini, MIT, Crete, and Museum of Science, Boston
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Daedalus (Star Trek: Enterprise)
...made to Zefram Cochrane's drinking habits, as seen in ''''. The title of the episode is a reference to the myth of Daedalus and Icarus. Daedalus devised wax wings which his son used without caution. He flew too close to the sun, had his wings...
In this article: T'Pol, Star Trek: Enterprise, Enterprise, Vulcan, Starfleet, Captain Archer, and UPN
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The Daedalus Variations
...issues, including the possibility of no Atlantis in one reality, so Robert C. Cooper suggested using the Daedalus. The final draft of "The Daedalus Variations" was completed on February 11. On February 12, the prosthetics meeting for the...
In this article: John Sheppard, Stargate Atlantis, Atlantis, Jason Momoa, SCI FI, and Richard Woolsey
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Baltimore Sun | September 19, 2009
Lost in the corn
...where visitors can orient themselves above the 11-foot-tall stalks. "Even if you follow the map, you can be fooled. It's scary!" From Daedalus to the Duke What's the appeal of getting lost in the midst of shrubberies, hedges or walls?
In this article: Maize, NPR, and John Wayne
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Chicago Tribune | August 31, 2009
Kass: Blagojevich gets it wrong again
...bizarre literary references, especially when you get the feeling he never read the books and only watched the movies. He invokes Daedalus and Icarus, but Blago gets the ancient myth wrong and insists Icarus fell to the ground after flying...
In this article: William Shakespeare, St. Crispin's Day, Richard III, Henry V, Tony Rezko, Barack Obama, and Chicago
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | August 13, 2009
A world ‘Beyond’
...him,'' Scott says. "So there's a melancholy aspect to many of these pieces. '' Look at those wings of Daedalus. In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a master craftsman, imprisoned with his son Icarus on Crete by the king. He built wings for the...
In this article: Scientific method, Tufts University, Barbie, Cancer, and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
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Metro | August 11, 2009
Family flies the Med powered only by sunshine
...the same time raising a lot of money, is a very worthwhile and laudable achievement,' said Damian, 39. But just like Icarus and his father Daedalus's attempt to escape Crete, the trip wasn't all plain sailing. One pilot broke his foot in...
In this article: Bear Grylls, Spain, Monte Carlo, Mere, Wiltshire, Crete, Straits of Gibraltar, and Mount Everest
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Technology Review Feed - Tech Review Top Stories | June 22, 2009
Flying and Selling
...a glycogen-replacing beverage. Known as Shaklee's Performance, it would be marketed as the drink that powered the Daedalus pilot as he pedaled "between the Greek islands of Crete and Santorini in less than four hours." Project manager John...
In this article: MIT, Gatorade, Santorini, Crete, Glycogen, Yale, and Michael Jordan
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Doomsday (Hercules episode)
...she does not know him well enough to pass judgment. He says that Nikolos is taking advantage of Daedalus' grief and that he will go and speak with Daedalus alone. Perdix comes and tells Hercules that Nikolos requests his presence at the...
In this article: Hercules, Hercules, Euboea, Silly Putty, Hera, and Zeus
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Turkish Daily News | June 23, 2008
Flying too close to the sun - Turkish Daily News Jun 23, 2008
...he and his son were imprisoned at the hands of King Minos, the king for whom he had built the Labyrinth. Daedalus, the master craftsman, was exiled because it was he who built the faux cow for the queen to climb into such that she could...
In this article: Minos, Crete, Heracles, Pasiphae, Wikipedia, Byzantium, and Bosporus
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In Greek mythology, Daedalus (Latin, also Hellenized Latin Daedalos, Greek Daidalos (Δαίδαλος) meaning "cunning worker", and Etruscan Taitle) was a most skillful artificer, or craftsman, so skillful that he was said to have invented images that seemed to move about. Daedalus had two sons: Icarus and Iapyx, along with a nephew, whose name varies. He is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne . The Labyrinth on Crete in which the Minotaur (part man, part bull) was kept, was also created by the artificer Daedalus. The story of the labyrinth is told where Theseus is challenged to kill the Minotaur, finding his way with the help of Ariadne's thread.
Ignoring Homer, later writers envisaged the labyrinth as an edifice rather than a single path to the center and out again, and gave it numberless winding passages and turns that opened into one another, seeming to have neither beginning nor end (see labyrinth as opposed to maze). Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, suggests that Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth so cunningly that he himself could barely escape it after he built it. Daedalus built the labyrinth for King Minos, who needed it to imprison his wife's son the Minotaur. The story is told that Poseidon had given a white bull to Minos so that he might use it as a sacrifice. Instead, Minos kept it for himself; and in revenge, Poseidon made his wife lust for the bull. For Minos' wife, Pasiphaë, Daedalus also built the wooden cow so she could mate with the bull, for the Greeks imagined the Minoan bull of the sun to be an actual, earthly bull.
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