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![]() ![]() “Even if I could get you out of here,” replied the queen, “you would be recaptured at once.” And then she added: ![]() “There are many things I can bear, but to see these hands lying idle, bound in slavery, that is more than I can endure!” Knowing the lone-liness of imprisonment, she would often come to the labyrinth to console them with her company and her conversation.Īs soon as he saw the queen, Daedalus burst out: Pasiphae was not cast in the same cruel mould as her hus-band, and it grieved her greatly to see the great artist and his son locked up like common criminals. He was still sitting, wrapped in thought, when Minos’ wife, Pasiphae, came to visit the two prisoners. He was looking fixedly up into the sky and thinking hard, for a bold idea had come into his head. “but if we had wings, too, how wonderful it would be! We would soar high into the sky, as high as the sun we would travel like the birds, like the clouds, like the gods themselves!”īut Daedalus was no longer paying any attention to his son’s words. “They gave them brains, though, Icarus,” replied his fa-ther, then suddenly fell silent, wrapped in thought. But, alas, the gods did not give men wings.” “If we could fly like them, we could escape from here. Yet how can we leave Crete if we can’t even find our way out of the labyrinth?” Now, the two of them had but one thought in their heads: how to find their way out of the maze and flee from Crete. Overnight, Daedalus found himself a prisoner in the very laby-rinth he had created, along with Icarus, his son. Daedalus helped Theseus to overcome the mon-ster, and when the king learned of it his anger was terrible. By this action he saved his people from the terrible blood-toll they had long paid to the hardhearted Minos: seven young men and seven maidens who were brought from Athens every year to be devoured by the Minotaur. This hideous beast was killed by Theseus, the great hero of Athens. (…) In the innermost part of the labyrinth was imprisoned the Minotaur, a man-eating monster with a human body and the head of a bull. Extract from the book Daedalus and Icarus: ![]()
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