Daedalus and Icarus
... • King minos found out and imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus inside • Escaped by making wings made of trees • Daedalus warned his son not to fly close to sun or else wings would melt • Icarus flew close to the sun, his wings melted and he fell in the sea and drowned ...
... • King minos found out and imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus inside • Escaped by making wings made of trees • Daedalus warned his son not to fly close to sun or else wings would melt • Icarus flew close to the sun, his wings melted and he fell in the sea and drowned ...
Myth Vocabulary #3
... Titan who was punished by Zeus. Tantalus was made extremely thirsty then placed in a river up to his neck for eternity; every time he tries to take a drink, the river drops just below his reach. 3. Typhoon: a violent & destructive tropical storm. ...
... Titan who was punished by Zeus. Tantalus was made extremely thirsty then placed in a river up to his neck for eternity; every time he tries to take a drink, the river drops just below his reach. 3. Typhoon: a violent & destructive tropical storm. ...
Slide 1 - Brighton School
... a magic ball of thread. At the entrance she tied one end of the thread to the lintel and told Theseus to unroll the ball as he went. By following the thread back, he would be able to find his way out. Theseus did this and killed the Minotaur. He and Adriadne left by ship. Minos was angry over this. ...
... a magic ball of thread. At the entrance she tied one end of the thread to the lintel and told Theseus to unroll the ball as he went. By following the thread back, he would be able to find his way out. Theseus did this and killed the Minotaur. He and Adriadne left by ship. Minos was angry over this. ...
Labyrinth
In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth (Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos. Its function was to hold the Minotaur eventually killed by the hero Theseus. Daedalus had so cunningly made the Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it.Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path (unicursal) seven-course ""Classical"" design without branching or dead ends became associated with the Labyrinth on coins as early as 430 BC, and similar non-branching patterns became widely used as visual representations of the Labyrinth – even though both logic and literary descriptions make it clear that the Minotaur was trapped in a complex branching maze. Even as the designs became more elaborate, visual depictions of the mythological Labyrinth from Roman times until the Renaissance are almost invariably unicursal. Branching mazes were reintroduced only when garden mazes became popular during the Renaissance.In English, the term labyrinth is generally synonymous with maze. As a result of the long history of unicursal representation of the mythological Labyrinth, however, many contemporary scholars and enthusiasts observe a distinction between the two. In this specialized usage maze refers to a complex branching multicursal puzzle with choices of path and direction, while a unicursal labyrinth has only a single path to the center. A labyrinth in this sense has an unambiguous route to the center and back and is not difficult to navigate.Unicursal labyrinths appeared as designs on pottery or basketry, as body art, and in etchings on walls of caves or churches. The Romans created many primarily decorative unicursal designs on walls and floors in tile or mosaic. Many labyrinths set in floors or on the ground are large enough that the path can be walked. Unicursal patterns have been used historically both in group ritual and for private meditation, and are increasingly found for therapeutic use in hospitals and hospices.