Perdix (mythology)
The best-known version of the story of Perdix (Greek πέρδιξ "partridge"), also called Talos or Kalos, can be found in Ovid . He is the nephew of the famous master builder Daidalos and is apprenticed to his uncle by his mother, his sister, at the age of 12. He shows amazing talent and invents u. a. the saw , the compass and the potter's wheel . Daidalos becomes jealous of him and finally throws him down from the Athens Acropolis .
But Athene or Minerva is very good for gifted people, she catches the boy and turns him into a partridge . However, for fear of altitude, this new bird always flies close to the ground.
This metamorphosis has both an aitiological and a warning function. Perdix, the partridge, was a constant reproach for the envious Daidalos , u. a. it seems to express malicious joy through his sounds when Daidalos buried his son Icarus on Ikaria , who had flown too close to the sun for the heat to melt the wax of his wings .
In the version of Apollodorus Perdix is called Daidalos' sister.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 15, 9; Diodorus 4.76
- ↑ Pausanias 1,21,4
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.236 to 259
- ^ A b Egon Gottwein: Ovid: Metamorphosen, 8th book (German translation by Reinhart Suchier). In: www.gottwein.de. Retrieved January 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.243
- ↑ Ovid, metamorphoses 8.246; Diodorus 4.76; Hyginus , Fabulae 39 and 274
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 274
- ↑ Diodorus 4.76
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 3,15,9, English translation: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022%3Atext%3DLibrary%3Abook%3D3%3Achapter%3D15 % 3Asection% 3D8
literature
- Otto Höfer : Perdix 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Sp. 1946–1955 ( digitized version ).