The animistic idea as the representation of the imaginative reality, is sanctified in the Homeric poems and in Greek myths, in stories of the god Hephaestus ( Phaistos ) and the mythic Daedalus ( the builder of the labyrinth ) that made images which moved of their own accord.

* It is the symbol of the Greek inventor and architect Daedalus

Daedalus is first mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.

Daedalus ' appearance in Homer is in an extended simile, " plainly not Homer's invention ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " he is a point of comparison and so he belongs in stories which Homer's audience already recognized.

The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus ' wings is a late one, that of Ovid: in his Metamorphoses ( VIII: 183-235 ) Daedalus was shut up in a tower to prevent his knowledge of his Labyrinth from spreading to the public.

An early image of winged Daedalus appears on an Etruscan jug of ca 630 BC found at Cerveteri, where a winged figure captioned Taitale appears on one side of the vessel, paired on the other side, uniquely, with Metaia, Medea: " its linking of these two mythical figures is unparalleled ," Robin Lane Fox observes: " The link was probably based on their wondrous, miraculous art.

In the video game Gray Matter a magicians club is named Daedalus, with a winged statue in the lobby in possible relation to him being an icon of magic, science or both.

The name Daedalus is used in James Joyce's novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses, though spelled differently in the last name of the character Stephen Dedalus.

Daedalus is the name of a major character in the game Deus Ex and the anime Ergo Proxy.

Daedalus is the name of a boss that protects Giruvegan in the game Final Fantasy XII.

In the Canadian-American military science fiction series Stargate SG-1 and later in the series Stargate Atlantis, Daedalus is the name for the second interstellar and first intergalactic spaceship built by Homeworld Security.

Daedalus is the name of the human / alien hybrid mastermind behind all the ( Chimeran ) actions and strategies in Insomniac's 2008 game, Resistance 2.

There is a character in the Saint Seiya comic and anime called Cepheus Daedalus, a silver saint from Argentina, master of Andromeda Shun and Chameleon June.

In the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Battle of the Labyrinth, Daedalus is the enigmatic Quintus ( Latin which means 5 or fifth ), and has preserved himself since antiquity by placing his animus, his life force, into an automaton, an idea pioneered by his nephew Perdix.

The Harry Potter character Dedalus Diggle is named after Daedalus.

In modern imagery, the labyrinth of Daedalus is often represented by a multicursal maze, in which one may become lost.

* In the 2010 video game, God of War III ( which is loosely based on Greek mythology ), Daedalus and the Labyrinth are featured but instead of the Labyrinth imprisoning the Minotaur, it imprisons Pandora.

Minos himself is said to have died at Camicus in Sicily, whither he had gone in pursuit of Daedalus, who had given Ariadne the clue by which she guided Theseus through the labyrinth.

The main alternative to magnetic confinement is inertial confinement fusion, such as that proposed by Project Daedalus.

The 40, 000 kilometer limit is also referenced in ENT: " Daedalus ".

Currently, designing an ICF system efficient enough for a Daedalus design is still considerably beyond current technical capabilities.

* Euphemus is given as the father of Daedalus by Hyginus, possibly by mistake instead of Eupalamus.

In some versions of the myth, Talos is forged by the inventor Daedalus.

* Daedalus ( Ariadne ), a fictional inventor created by New Scientist columnist David E. H. Jones

: This article deals with the fictional inventor Daedalus.

In the columns, Daedalus ' inventions are often developed by the fictional company Daedalus Research Evaluation and Development Corporation ( DREADCO ).

David E. H. Jones is best known as Daedalus, the fictional inventor for DREADCO.

Some regular features disappeared over the years: the Grimbledon Down comic strip about a research establishment run by the hapless Treem ; Ariadne, later with Nature, commenting every week on the lighter side of science and technology and the plausible but impractical humorous inventions of ( fictitious ) inventor Daedalus, often developed by the ( fictitious ) DREADCO corporation.

In Greek mythology, Daedalus is an architect and inventor who becomes trapped in a labyrinth of his own construction.

The craft was named after the mythological inventor of aviation, Daedalus, and was inspired by the Greek myth of Daedalus ' escape from Crete using manmade wings.

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel " The Maze Maker " ( Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967 ).

He then demanded that, at nine-year intervals, seven Athenian boys and seven Athenian girls were to be sent to Crete to be devoured by the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster that lived in the Labyrinth created by Daedalus.

Computer lettering really started making an impact with the availability of the first commercial comic book font, " Whizbang " ( created by Studio Daedalus ) around 1990.

KAP was created by Race Bannon, who also originally started Daedalus Publishing, however in 2005 management of the service was passed to the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom.

The story of the breath of life in a statue has parallels in the examples of Daedalus, who used quicksilver to install a voice in his statues ; of Hephaestus, who created automata for his workshop ; of Talos, an artificial man of bronze ; and, according to Hesiod, Pandora, who was made from clay at the behest of Zeus.

The company has also presented several world premieres, including most notably Meltdown, John Lazarus's astonishing retelling of the myth of Daedalus, Icarus and the Minotaur ; the collectively created community play about Kingston's social stratification, Princess Street: The Great Divide ; Fred Euringer's Night Noises, about a nineteenth-century nutritionist who connived at the starvation deaths of his own children, and Craig Walker's Chantecler, a musical based loosely on the play by Edmond Rostand and his Finnegans Wake: a dream play, an innovative adaptation from the novel by James Joyce which enjoyed a successful run not only in Kingston, but at the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto.

* Daedalus by David Davalos

Minos, meanwhile, searched for Daedalus by travelling from city to city asking a riddle.

The anecdotes are literary, and late ; however, in the founding tales of the Greek colony of Gela, founded in the 680s on the southwest coast of Sicily, a tradition was preserved that the Greeks had seized cult images wrought by Daedalus from their local predecessors, the Sicani.

Daedalus appears in the game God of War III voiced by Malcolm McDowell.

Image: Lord Frederick Leighton FLL006. jpg | Daedalus and Icarus, by Frederick Leighton, ca 1869.

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth ( Greek λαβύρινθος labyrinthos, possibly the building complex at Knossos ) was an elaborate structure designed and built by the legendary artificer Daedalus for King Minos of Crete at Knossos.

On the strength of a passage in The Illiad, it has been suggested that the palace was the site of a dancing-ground made for Ariadne by the craftsman Daedalus, where young men and women, of the age of those sent to Crete as prey for the Minotaur, would dance together.

He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete.

Every year ( or every nine years in some sources ) he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus ' creation, the labyrinth, to be eaten by the Minotaur.

Later, the novel Daedalus, by Dave Stern, included flashbacks to the early days of the NX Program which needed to be revised to avoid conflicting with the already-broadcast episode " First Flight ", which also featured a look at the early days of the NX Program.

He reportedly only reigned in Megara while Athens and the rest of Attica were under the control of an alliance of Nobles led by his uncle Metion ( son of Erechtheus of Athens ) and his sons ( including in some accounts Daedalus ).

The sea serpent spotted by the crew of HMS Daedalus in 1848.

A particularly famous sea serpent sighting was made by the men and officers of HMS Daedalus in August 1848 during a voyage to Saint Helena in the South Atlantic ; the creature they saw, some long, held a peculiar maned head above the water.

According to dialogue in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Daedalus ", the transporter was invented in the early 22nd century by Dr. Emory Erickson, who also became the first human to be successfully transported.