Talos (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Talos or Talus (/ˈteɪlɒs/; Ancient Greek: Τάλως Talōs) may refer to the following characters mostly connected with Crete:

Talos, a man of bronze who guarded Crete.^[1]
Talos, a son of Cres (son of Idaea and Zeus) and the father of Hephaestus who also fathered Rhadamanthys.^[2] This Talos is considered by some scholars to be the same as the Talos who guarded Crete.^[3]^[4]
Talus, a son of Oenopion, son of Ariadne. His possible mother was the nymph Helice and his only sister was Merope (Aero).^[5] Together with his brothers Euanthes, Melas, Salagus and Athamas, they followed their father when he sailed with a fleet from Crete to Chios.^[6] This Talos is considered by some scholars to be the same as the Talos who guarded Crete.^[3]^[4]
Talos, son of Daedalus' sister Perdix. Daedalus seeing that his disciple Talos was more gifted than himself, killed him.^[7]
Talos, a soldier in the army of Turnus, the man who opposed Aeneas in Italy. He was killed by Aeneas.^[8]

^ Apollodorus, 1.9.26
^ Pausanias, 8.53.5 with Cinaethon in his poem as the authority
^ ^a ^b Papadopoulos, John (1994). "Talos I". Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Vol. 7: Oidipous - Theseus. Artemis & Winkler Verlag. pp. 834–837.
^ ^a ^b Buxton, Richard (1998). "The Myth of Talos". In Atherton, Catherine (ed.). Monsters and Monstrosity in Greek and Roman Culture. Levante Editori. p. 88. ISBN 887949290X.
^ Parthenius, 20
^ Pausanias, 7.4.8
^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.76.4; Apollodorus, 3.15.8
^ Virgil, Aeneid 12.513