Editing Daedalus (section)

=== Nephew ===
[[File:Minerva verandert Perdix in een vogel Metamorfosen van Ovidius (serietitel), RP-P-OB-15.948.jpg|thumb|367x367px|Perdix (Talus) changed into a partridge when thrown from the Acropolis by an envious Daedalus (1602–1607)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Minerva verandert Perdix in een vogel, Crispijn van de Passe (I), 1602 - 1607|url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/RP-P-OB-15.948|access-date=2021-06-07|website=Rijksmuseum|language=nl}}</ref>]]
Daedalus was so proud of his achievements that he could not bear the idea of a rival. His sister had placed her son under his charge to be taught the mechanical arts as an apprentice. His nephew is named variously as [[Perdix (mythology)|Perdix]], Talos, or Calos, although some sources say that Perdix was the name of Daedalus' sister.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Library, book 3, chapter 15, section 8|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%203.15.8&lang=original|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> The nephew showed striking evidence of ingenuity. Finding the spine of a fish on the seashore, he took a piece of iron and notched it on the edge, and thus invented the saw. He put two pieces of iron together, connecting them at one end with a rivet, and sharpening the other ends, and made a pair of compasses.<ref>Both inventions are in Ovid, ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 8.236</ref> Daedalus was so envious of his nephew's accomplishments that he attempted to murder him by throwing him down from the [[Acropolis of Athens|Acropolis in Athens]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Circĭnus|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062:entry=circinus-harpers&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> [[Athena]] saved his nephew and turned him into a [[Perdix|partridge]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 183|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.%20Met.%208.251&lang=original|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Tried and convicted for this murder attempt, Daedalus left Athens and fled to [[Crete]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Library, book 3, chapter 15, section 8|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.%203.15.8&lang=original|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pausanias, Description of Greece, Attica, chapter 21|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160:book=1:chapter=21&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>