Whatever Daedalus needed King Minos provided without question - food, drink, tools of all shapes, rare metals,

The only entrances to the cave were through the labyrinth guarded by the King’s soldiers (not to mention the Minotaur!) and an entrance overlooking the sea high up on the sideĭaedalus didn’t mind his imprisonment at first. He wanted Daedalus to work only for him and so he had his Royal Guards take Daedalus and his young son Icarus and lock them away in a cave highĪbove the sea. Unfortunately, King Minos was also very greedy. A few months later he presented the plans for a giant labyrinth to hold the half-man and half-bull monster, known as the Minotaur, prisoner. King Minos approached Daedalus to ask if he might be able to invent something less pretty but more useful and Daedalus did notĭisappoint. Instead of clocks people kept track of the time using sundials.Īnd so, the tiny mechanical bird that chirped when the sun rose – given by Daedalus to the newborn princess toĬelebrate her birth - became the talk of everyone in the land. Instead of cars, people got from place to place by walking or if they were wealthy by riding on a horse or People learned what was new in the land by listening to the gossip at the local inn.

Now this was a very long time ago – and in this ancient time there were no televisions or cars or clocks. Inventor of strange and wonderful mechanical creations. Daedalus was just an ordinary man, except for one special talent – he was an On the island of Crete during the age of King Minos, there lived a man named Daedalus and his young son Icarus. © written and illustrated by Leanne Guenther DLTK's Countries and Cultures - Greek Mythology

Icarus story grade 2