daedalus & icarus in Greek Mythology

2. VOCABULARY
1. A spy used cunning to find out secrets.
a. a clever and often deceptive way
b. an innocent behavior
c. the display of honesty at all times
2. He is a prominent lawyer in Trento.
a. favors the poor over the rich
b. old and experienced
c. well-known and respected

3. VOCABULARY
3. Just for amusement, the rich man had a
labyrinth made of bushes in his garden.
a. Wide playground and park
b. Complicated set of paths
c. Luxurious entertainment room
4. I hurt my foot and can barely walk.
a. hardly
b. joyfully
c. gently

4. VOCABULARY
5. Great ingenuity goes into building rockets.
a. patience
b. dedication
c. cleverness
6. Rivets hold bridge beams together.
a. Metal plug with cap
b. Cemented rocks
c. Strong lumber

5. VOCABULARY
7. He is envious of my new car and wants one like it.
a. hopeful
b. happy
c. jealous
8. I seized his arm so he couldn’t run away.
a. Cut with a knife
b. Held with force
c. Broke into pieces

6. VOCABULARY
9. The runner surpassed his old record by ten
seconds.
a. exceeded
b. lacked
c. repeated
10. I can’t conceive of why he did such a stupid
thing.
a. blame
b. follow
c. think

7. VOCABULARY
11. The detail on the watch face is exquisite.
a. Roughly made
b. Finely made
c. Hand made
12. She rejected his amorous advances.
a. Sexual love
b. Evil plan
c. Friendly advice

8. VOCABULARY
13. He wants to slay a deer.
a. kill
b. feed
c. see
14. The lies said about him enraged him.
a. Laughed heartily
b. Surprised terribly
c. Made very angry

9. VOCABULARY
15. The judge’s face was stern when she said,
“Guilty!”.
a. Very pleasant
b. Very serious
c. Slow and faint
16. He dampen the cloth with water.
a. To wet
b. To wash
c. flow

10. VOCABULARY
17. The cold wind exhilarated me.
a. slowed
b. killed
c. enliven
18. The young boxer won his first fight; now, he’s
cocky.
a. humble
b. arrogant
c. rich

11. VOCABULARY
19. He is furious over the theft of his wallet.
a. Very angry
b. Crying out loud
c. Happy and praising
20. He felt anguish when her 15-year old dog died.
a. Hatred and unforgiving
b. Happy and liberating
c. Painful sadness

12. Nick Pontikis

13. • Daedalus -- his name
means "skilled worker“
• a famous architect,
inventor, and master
craftsman known for
having created many
objects
• had a beloved son
named Icarus.

14. Inventions and creations:
• the wooden cow he
constructed for the
queen Pasiphae,
• the Labyrinth of the
Minotaur at Knossos on
the island of Crete,
• artificial wings for himself
and his son Icarus
• images.

15. Labyrinth:
• He built the maze to imprison
the Minotaur, half man - half
bull.
• so cunningly crafted that he
himself could barely find his
way out after constructing it.
• With countless winding
passages and turns that
opened into one another,
• appeared to have neither
beginning nor end.

16. • homeland was Athens
• Alcippe, Merope and
Iphinoe are all
mentioned as being
his mother.
• His father's identity
was never precisely
established but many
claim that it was
Metion, son of
Erectheus.

17. • his apprentice was his
sister's son Perdix.
• Daedalus was so
proud of his
achievements that he
could not bear the
idea of a rival.
• Perdix was an apt
scholar and showed
striking evidence of
ingenuity.

18. • Walking on the seashore,
Perdix picked up the spine
of a fish, took a piece of
iron and notched it on the
edge, and thus invented
the saw.
• Perdix put two pieces of
iron together, connecting
them at one end with a
rivet, and sharpening the
other ends, and made a
pair of compasses

19. • Daedalus was so
envious of his
nephew's
accomplishments
• He tossed him from
the hill of the
Acropolis.
• Athena turned Perdix
into a partridge to
save him.

20. • Daedalus was the first
to conceive masts and
sails for ships for the
navy of Minos, helping
Crete become a naval
power.
• The statues he carved
were so exquisite, they
looked as if they were
alive.

21. • Daedelus also
constructed a wooden
cow for the queen to
hide in to satisfy her
amorous longings for a
white bull sent by
Poseidon,
• by which she became
pregnant with the
Minotaur.

22. • When the dreadful
Minotaur was born,
Daedalus built the
Labyrinth
• For years Minos
demanded a tribute of
youths from Athens to
feed the creature as
punishment for the
accidental killing of his
son while he was visiting
Athens.

23. • Theseus, the
Athenian hero came
to Crete to attempt
to slay the Minotaur.
• Princess Ariadne,
daughter of king
Minos and queen
Pasiphae, fell in love
with Theseus and
asked Daedalus to
help him.

24. • Daedalus gave her a
flaxen thread for
Theseus to tie to the
door of the Labyrinth as
he entered, and by
which he could find his
way out after killing the
monster, simply by
following the thread
back.
• Theseus succeeded, and
escaped Crete with
Ariadne.

25. • Minos shut Daedalus and
Icarus into the Labyrinth,
knowing that Theseus could
not have accomplished the
deed without his help.
• Daedalus managed to get out
of the Labyrinth - after all, he
had built it and knew his way
around.
• Daedalus decided that he and
his son Icarus had to leave
Crete and get away from
Minos, before he brought
them harm.

26. • Since Minos controlled the
land and sea routes, and
there was no route of escape
there.
• Daedalus realized that the
only way out was by air.
• Daedalus built wings for
himself and Icarus, fashioned
with feathers held together
with wax.
• Daedalus tried the wings on
himself first and was satisfied
that his plan would work.

27. • Daedalus warned
Icarus to follow closely
behind him.
• He sternly cautioned
Icarus not to fly too
close to the sun, as it
would melt his wings,
and not too close to
the sea, as it would
dampen them and
make it hard to fly.

28. • They successfully flew
from Crete, but Icarus
grew exhilarated by the
thrill of flying and began
getting careless.
• Forgetting his father's
stern advice, Icarus flew
too close to the sun god
Helios, pulling the sun
behind his chariot high
in the sky.

29. • The wax softened and
melted from the heat
• Icarus could not prevent
the feathers from falling
off his body.
• Furiously he flapped his
arms, but soon no feathers
at all were left
• he fell to his death,
drowning in the sea, as his
helpless father with
anguish watched his son
perish.

30. • Daedalus cried, bitterly
lamenting his own arts, and
called the land near the
place where Icarus fell into
the ocean Icaria in memory
of his child.
• The Icarian Sea, where he
fell, was forever named after
him and it is said that the
great hero Heracles
(Hercules), who was passing
by, gave him proper burial.

31. • Daedalus grieved for his
dead son and then
continued to Sicily,
where he came to stay
at the court of Cocalus
in a place called
Camicus.
• Daedalus built a temple
to Apollo, and hung up
his wings, as an offering
to the Olympian god.

32. • King Minos went in pursuit of
Daedalus, hoping to locate and
trick the great inventor
• Minos offered a reward to
whomever could thread a spiral
seashell, a seemingly impossible
task.
• Minos came to Camicus in Sicily
and presented the contest at
Cocalus' court.
• Daedalus tied the string to an ant,
place the ant at one end of the
shell, and allowed the ant to walk
through the spiral chambers until
it came out the other end.

33. • Minos saw that someone
had solved the puzzle
• He demanded that
Cocalus surrender
Daedalus, for he insisted
that only he would have
been inventive enough to
solve the task.
• King Cocalus promised to
do so
• He persuaded Minos to
first take a bath and stay
for some entertainment.

34. • Minos agreed, and was
consequently murdered by
Cocalus' daughters, who
had been totally impressed
by the toys and gifts which
Daedalus had bestowed
upon them and did not
want any harm to come to
him.
• In some versions of the
myth, Daedalus himself
poured boiling water on
Minos and killed him.

35. • Daedalus eventually
left Camicus, much
to the dismay of king
Cocalus and his
daughters,
• ended up in Sardinia
with a group led by
Iolaus, who was a
nephew of Heracles.