Favourite Heroes
‘Daedalus and Icarus‛
by Paraskevi Golfi, 6b
Daedalus
was a skillful craftsman and artist. He went to Crete
with his son,
Icarus
to make a labyrinth for King Minos. But after
that King Minos kept them there. One day Daedalus had an idea;
to make wings out of feathers and secure them with string and
wax. He and his son wanted to fly from Crete to Athens (see Issue
1 for a map of Greece). Somewhere above the islands of Icaria and
Samos, Icarus flew too close to the sun. The blazing sun softened
the wax which held the feathers together. They came off and he
fell into the Icarian sea, which was named after him.
‘Odysseus‛
by Catherine Marinou, Christina Charatse,6a & Stelios Gournikis,6b
Odysseus (Ulysses) was a legendary hero in Greek
mythology, king of Ithaca island and the main protagonist
of Homer‛s epic, ‘The Odyssey‛. After the destruction of
Troy, god of the sea, Poseidon did not let him return to
his country. For ten years he was wandering about to
unknown lands, having many dangerous adventures. He
managed t