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SUMMARY
SUMMARY
Minos was the king of Crete and the son of Zeus. His wife, Pasifae, got intimate with a bull and had the Minotaur, a half human monster. To conceal him he ordered Daedalus to create a Labyrinth to hide his son. But then he also trapped Daedalus and his son Icarus in there, so Daedalus created wings made of wax and feathers to escape, but during the flight Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, so he fell into the sea and died. So, Daedalus arrived in Sicily, where he became friends with King Cocalous. He amazed the Sicanians with his spectacular skills. After some time Minos was informed about where Daedaus was. He advanced with an army against him, and he sent some messangers to the king Cocalous, and asked for Daedalus to be punished. But while Minos was bathing Cocalus drowned him.
Minos was the king of Crete and the son of Zeus. His wife, Pasifae, got intimate with a bull and had the Minotaur, a half human monster. To conceal him he ordered Daedalus to create a Labyrinth to hide his son. But then he also trapped Daedalus and his son Icarus in there, so Daedalus created wings made of wax and feathers to escape, but during the flight Icarus flew too close to the sun and the wax melted, so he fell into the sea and died. So, Daedalus arrived in Sicily, where he became friends with King Cocalous. He amazed the Sicanians with his spectacular skills. After some time Minos was informed about where Daedaus was. He advanced with an army against him, and he sent some messangers to the king Cocalous, and asked for Daedalus to be punished. But while Minos was bathing Cocalus drowned him.
ANALYSING THE MYTH
ANALYSING THE MYTH
First, we translated the Greek myth into English. You can find the texts here, or you can listen to the audio file. Just click on the link ⬇️
Δαίδαλος δὲ παρά τῷ τε Κωκάλῳ καὶ τοῖς Σικανοῖς διέτριβε μακρὸν χρόνον, καὶ ἐθαυμάζετο ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὴν τέχνην ὑπερβολῇ. Μίνως δ’ ὁ τῶν Κρητῶν βασιλεὺς ἐθαλαττοκράτει· Επυνθάνετο δὲ τὴν Δαιδάλου φυγὴν εἰς Σικελίαν, οὕτως οὖν ἐστράτευε ἐπ’ αὐτὴν· παρεσκευάζετο δὲ στόλον ἀξιόλογον καὶ ἐξέπλει ἐκ τῆς Κρήτης. Μετ’ ὀλίγον κατῇρε τῆς Ἀκραγαντίνης γῆς εἰς τὴν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ Μινῴαν Ηράκλειαν καλουμένην. Ἀπεβίβαζε δὲ τὸν στρατὸν καὶ ἔπεμπε ἀγγέλους πρὸς Κώκαλον τὸν βασιλέα· ᾔτει γὰρ τὸν Δαίδαλον εἰς τιμωρίαν. Ὁ δὲ Κώκαλος εἰς σύλλογον προὐκαλεῖτο αὐτὸν καὶ ὡς φίλος προσελάμβανε τὸν Μίνω. Λουμένου δὲ οὖν τοῦ Μίνω, Κώκαλος δὲ κατεῖχε τὸν Μίνω μακρὸν χρόνον ἐν τῷ θερμῷ καὶ διέφθειρε αὐτόν. Οὕτως ἐτελεύτα ὁ Μίνως ἐν Σικελίᾳ.
AUDIO-2025-06-11-10-36-03.m4aDaedalus spent a lot of time with Cocalous and the Sicanians and they were amazed by the superiority of his skills. Minos, the king of Crete, was the master of the sea; he was informed of Daedalus’s escape to Sicily; therefore he advanced with an army against him. He prepared superior equipment and he sailed out from Crete. In a short time he landed in the Acragantine land in the Minoic territory he called Eracleian land. He disembarked the army and he sent messangers to the king Cocalus: in fact, the latter asked for Daedalus to be punished. Cocalus invited him for a meeting and he received Minos as a friend. Therefore, while Minos was bathing, Cocalous kept Minos in the hot water for a long time and he killed him. So, Minos passed away in Sicily.
AUDIO-2025-06-11-09-20-34.m4aThen, we analysed the text to look for archetypes and stereotypes. You can see our content analysis here ⬇️
OUR MODERN VERSION
OUR MODERN VERSION
After reading the myth of Minos and Daedalus, we decided to reinterpret the myth in a modern version, taking inspiration from the movie” Percy Jackson and the Thunder Thief”. We created a new version of the story, where the characters live in the modern Athens, and the main protagonists are a CEO and an Hacker, respectively Minos and Daedalus. We rewrote the story in a newspaper, where a scandal is told that includes Carlos Locus, David Delus and Yorgo Minos. In our opinion this is the best way to rewrite it because we transformed a tragic myth into an episode of crime news and a scandal.
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