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.

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 had two sons: Icarus and Iapyx, along with a nephew, whose name was Perdix.

Daedalus gave his name, eponymously, to any Greek artificer and to many Greek contraptions that represented dextrous skill.

Five ships and a number of shore establishments of the ( British ) Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Daedalus.

Daedalus had a crossbow item named after him in DotA, hence, Dota 2, too uses his name as an item.

* a Cretan, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of Iapyges, son of Daedalus either:

It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby.

Stephen's first name remembers the first Christian martyr ; in juxtaposition, his surname recalls the mythological figure Daedalus, a brilliant artificer who constructed a pair of wings for himself and his son Icarus as a means of escaping the island of Crete, where they had been imprisoned by King Minos.

The character Daedalus from Greek mythology has lent his name to many other things:

For other uses of the name, see Daedalus ( disambiguation ).

The name Swordfish is derived from the World War Two bomber the Fairey Swordfish which flew from the nearby airfield at RNAS Lee-on-Solent ( HMS Daedalus ).

The name " Daedalus ", more specifically, has been suggested by Perez-Gomez to be a play on the Greek word " daidala " which appears in archaic literature as a complement of the verb " to make ", " to manufacture ", " to forge ", " to weave ", " to place on ", or " to see ".

" Daedalus " is the name of the 86th episode from the television series Star Trek: Enterprise and the tenth of the fourth season and first aired on January 14, 2005.

R-Type Final identifies this ship as the OF-1 Daedalus, but it is not known if that was the ship's original name.

Dédalo ( Spanish for Daedalus ) was the name of two ships of the Spanish Navy:

The Mondites however received the distress call before the Reticulum could be notified ; through studying the black box and the remains, they finally discover the aliens ' homeworld, a moon which they name Daedalus ( named after the Greek myth ) in a remote sector of the galaxy and establish a base while investigating the ruins the aliens left behind ; a sentient race known as the Phyxx who were long thought to be extinct.

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

* Daedalus, an artificial intelligence in the computer game Deus Ex

* Helios, an AI in the computer game Deus Ex, the sum of the merged Daedalus and Icarus AIs

The final Talislanta supplement published by Wizards in 1994 ended with the announcement that Daedalus Entertainment, a small company which had gained some attention for creating the game Feng Shui, would be publishing a new edition within the year, written by noted game designer Robin Laws.

The Daedalus Encounter is a computer game from 1995.

" Carmody said if players enjoyed the game Entombed they would likely enjoy The Daedalus Encounter, due to the similar gameplay element where every door is locked with a puzzle that must be solved before a player can go on.

Robin D. Laws designed the collectable card game Shadowfist, as well as the role-playing game ( RPG ) Feng Shui, originally published by Daedalus Entertainment in 1996 and later published by Atlas Games, as well as supplements for Feng Shui.

Feng Shui is a martial arts-themed role-playing game, designed by Robin Laws, published first by Daedalus Entertainment and now by Atlas Games.

The game ends rather abruptly after the player escapes Daedalus in an experimental spacecraft in the wake of the moon's destruction, escorted by several Phyxx Blockships.