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In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ s /; [1] Greek: Τάλως, Tálōs) or Talon (/ ˈ t eɪ l ɒ n, ən /; Greek: Τάλων, Tálōn), was a man of bronze who protected Crete from pirates and invaders. Despite the popular idea that he was a giant, no ancient source states this explicitly.
This Talos is considered by some scholars to be the same as the Talos who guarded Crete. [3] [4] Talos, son of Daedalus' sister Perdix. Daedalus seeing that his disciple Talos was more gifted than himself, killed him. [7] Talos, a soldier in the army of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy. He was killed by Aeneas. [8]
Leucus, son of the bronze giant Talos of Crete and foster son of King Idomeneus. Following the advice of Nauplius , he seduced Meda , wife of Idomeneus, who had been convinced by Nauplius not to stay faithful to her husband, when Idomeneus himself had gone to Trojan War .
The Suda, a Byzantine encyclopedia from the tenth-century CE, adds to this that Talos and Rhadamanthus introduced homosexuality to Crete. [ 6 ] Other sources (e.g. Plutarch , Theseus 20) credit Rhadamanthys rather than Dionysus as the husband of Ariadne , and the father of Oenopion , Staphylus and Thoas .
In Greek mythology, Cres (Ancient Greek: Κρής Kres, gen. Κρητός) was a possible eponym of the island Crete. Stephanus of Byzantium distinguishes between two figures of this name: one was a son of Zeus and the nymph Idaea, and the other a Cretan autochthon who became the first ruler of Crete. [1]
Daedalus had two sons: Icarus [12] and Iapyx, [13] along with a nephew named either Talos, Calos, or Perdix. [14] The Athenians rewrote the Cretan-born Daedalus as an Athenian himself, the grandson of the ancient king Erechtheus [15] who only fled to Crete after killing his nephew. [16]
The mythological Talos guarded Crete, not the "Isle of Bronze", and was protecting not a treasure, but Queen Europa. In the film, Hylas was killed when the crumbling remains of Talos crushed him. However, in mythology, Hylas was actually kidnapped by a naiad who fell in love with him as he took a drink from a spring.
Pulling the plug on Talos as Medea stands by with her magic box (Attic red-figure column-krater, 450-400 BC) Putting to sea from there, they were hindered from touching at Crete by Talos. Some say that he was a man of the Brazen Race, others that he was given to Minos by Hephaestus; he was a brazen man, but some say that he was a bull.