Talos
1. A son of Perdix, the sister of Daedalus. He himself was a disciple of Daedalus, and is said to have invented several instruments used in the mechanical arts; but Daedalus incensed by envy thrust him down the rock of the Acropolis at Athens. The Athenians worshipped him as a hero. (Apollodorus iii. Lucian Pausanias calls him Calos, and states that he was buried on the road leading from the theatre to the Acropolis. Hyginus and Ovid (Metamorphoses viii) call him Perdix, which, according to the common tradition, was the name of his father.
2. A man of brass, the work of Hephaestus. This wonderful being was given to Minos by Zeus or Hephaestus, and watched the island of Crete by walking round the island thrice every day. Whenever he saw strangers approaching, he made himself red-hot in fire, and then embraced the strangers when they landed. lie had in his body only one vein, which ran from the head to the ankles, and was closed at the top with a nail. When he attempted to keep the Argonauts from Crete by throwing stones at them, Medeia by her magic powers threw him into a state of madness, or, according to others, under the pretence of making him immortal, she took the nail out of his vein and thus caused him to bleed to death. Others again related that Poeas killed him by wounding him with an arrow in the ankle. (Apollodorus i. The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius)
3. A son of Oenopion. (Description of Greece by Pausanias vii)
4. A son of Cres, and father of Hephaestus. (Description of Greece by Pausanias viii)
From Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and MythologyFrom Apollodorus Library Book 3
Now the Minotaur was confined in a labyrinth, in which he who entered could not find his way out for many a winding turn shut off the secret outward way. The labyrinth was constructed by Daedalus, whose father was Eupalainus, son of Metion, and whose mother was Alcippe for he was an excellent architect and the first inventor of images.
He had fled from Athens, because he had thrown down from the acropolis Talos, the son of his sister Perdix for Talos was his pupil, and Daedalus feared that with his talents he might sur- pass himself, seeing that he had sawed a thin stick with a jawbone of a snake which he had found.
But the corpse was discovered Daedalus was tried in the Areopagus, and being condemned fled to Minos. And there Pasiphae having fallen in love with the bull of Poseidon, Daedalus acted as her accomplice by contriving a wooden cow, and he constructed the labyrinth, to which the Athenians every year sent seven youths and as many damsels to be fodder for the Minotaur.
From Works, Volume One by Lucian of Samosata
.Just look! the ascent packed with a pushing crowd, at the very first sound of my 8 pounds. More of them along the Pelasgicum, more by the temple of Asclepius, a bigger crowd still over the Areopagus. Why, positively there are a few at the tomb of Talos; and see those putting ladders against the temple of Castor and Pollux; up they climb, buzzing and clustering like a swarm of bees. In Homeric phrase, on this side are exceeding many, and on that
Ten thousand, thick as leaves and flowers in spring.
From The Theogony of Apollodorus
Putting to sea from there, they were hindered from touching at Crete by Talos. Some say that he was a man of the Brazen Race, others that he was given to Minos by Hephaestus; he was a brazen man, but some say that he was a bull. He had a single vein extending from his neck to his ankles, and a bronze nail was rammed home at the end of the vein.
