The Dutch Tiphys

But he also is fabled to have sailed away original Greek: ἀποπλεῦσαι μυθεύεται (apopleusai mytheuetai) with his son Icarus by taking a boat and escaping Minos; because he became invisible to his pursuer, it is told in the manner of a fable that he flew away with his son Icarus, because having obtained a ship he escaped Minos when those pursuing him could not find him. I would judge that he did not attempt his flight in a large ship, lest he give even the slightest suspicion of his escape to the Tyrant; but rather that they committed themselves to individual smaller skiffs The author uses the Latin cymbulis, referring to small, light boats. covered on all sides with leather: just as the barbarians even today near the Davis Strait in America The Davis Strait lies between Greenland and Nunavut, Canada. This is a remarkably early ethnographic comparison between Greek myth and the Inuit kayak. sail bound in these up to the waist, and covered by a leather outer-garment original Greek: ἐπενδύτῃ (ependytē) on the protruding part of the body, navigating with a single-oar original Greek: μονόκωποι (monokōpoi) equipped with two blades A precise description of a double-bladed kayak paddle..

Indeed, these men did not weave hulls from pine,
Nor did they follow the custom; nor from fir (as is common)
Do they curve their barks: But for a miracle of a thing,
They always fit their vessels with joined skins,
And often traverse the vast brine in leather.
This poetic excerpt describes "coracles" or skin-boats, reinforcing the author's theory that "winged" flight in myth was actually the use of light, skin-covered vessels.

And while Daedalus hugged the shores of the islands or the continent more closely, Icarus, having ventured further out, was overturned by the force of the waves and perished. And let Pegasus and Bellerophon also be added here: for he was carried across the azure paths by that wooden horse The author suggests "Pegasus" was the name of a ship, not a literal flying horse.. For so Conon A Greek mythographer from the 1st century BCE. recorded in his fortieth narration found in Photius A 9th-century scholar and Patriarch of Constantinople whose "Bibliotheca" preserved summaries of many lost ancient books.. The fortieth history relates the story of Andromeda differently than the Greek myth does. original Greek: ἡ τεσσαρακοστὴ ἱστορία, τὰ περὶ Ἀνδρόμεδας ἱστορεῖ ἑτέρως, ἢ ὡς ὁ Ἑλλήνων μῦθος. There were two brothers, Cepheus and Phineus: and the kingdom of Cepheus indeed later took the name of Phoenicia, whereas until that day it had been called Joppe Modern-day Jaffa in Israel. after the maritime city; and he held [the boundaries] of the empire