Editing Talos (section)

===Immolation of victims===

Discussing the origin of the phrase ''sardonios gelos'' (σαρδόνιος γέλως){{snd}}'[[Sardonicism|sardonic laugh]]'{{snd}}both [[Photios I of Constantinople|Photius]] in his ''Lexicon'', and [[Zenobius]] in his ''Proverbs'' cite [[Simonides of Ceos|Simonides]] (c. 556-468 BCE) for a story which involves Talos.<ref>Simonides 204. in {{cite book | translator-last=Edmonds| translator-first=John |title = Lyrae Graeca | volume= 2 |publisher=Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press|year=1924 |pages = 404–407}}</ref> Photius's summary of the account by Simonides is that some [[Sardinia|Sardinans]] refused to take Talos to king [[Minos]] of [[Crete]], in response to which Talos grabbed them and jumped into some flames whilst holding them tight, killing them. [[Zenobius|Zenobius's]] summary states that Talos lived in Sardinia before going to Crete, and killed many of the inhabitants without mentioning how or why. Not enough remains to establish whether Simonides associated Talos with the Argonauts.<ref name="Gantz"/> 

Talos is also mentioned in two fragments relating to a lost [[Sophocles|Sophoclean]] drama, ''Daidalos'', the plot of which in unknown.<ref name="sophocles">{{cite book| editor-last=Lloyd-Jones |editor-first=Hugh |title=Sophocles Fragments |publisher=Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press |year=2003 |isbn=0-674-99532-5 |page=64}}</ref> The fragments indicate that in this source, too, Talos killed his victims by burning them.<ref name="sophocles"/> Outside of Simonides and Sophocles, no other surviving source mentions this method of execution.<ref name="Gantz"/>