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Addendum: Homer and Daedalus
Merlin The Time Traveller Started conversation Nov 25, 2000
A small addendum:
In the Iliad, by Homer, Hephaestos, the god of the forge and crafts, designs a shield for Achilles. This shield depicts all aspects of human society, and includes a dance-floor "like the dancing floor which once Daedalus built in the broad space of Knossus for lovely haired Ariadne" (Homer Iliad 18.591-2). This dance floor was the Ariadne's Dance mentioned in the article.
The god of arts and crafts himself has copied the works of Daedalus, which must be the highest possible form of flattery.
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