Perdix

Family: Athenians · Role: nephew and pupil of Dædalus · First appears: Fable 72

Life events

Perdix invents the saw and the compass.(Fable72)
- “’Twas he, too, who took the backbones observed in the middle of the fish, for an example, and cut {a} continued {row of} teeth in iron, with a sharp edge, and {thus} discovered the use of the saw.”
Dædalus throws Perdix from the citadel and falsely claims he fell accidentally.(Fable72 · 📍 sacred citadel of Minerva)
- With: Dædalus
- “Dædalus was envious, and threw him headlong from the sacred citadel of Minerva, falsely pretending that he had fallen {by accident}.”
Minerva catches Perdix and transforms him into a bird.(Fable72)
- With: Minerva
- “But Pallas, who favours ingenuity, received him, and made him a bird; and, in the middle of the air, he flew upon wings.”

mentor: Dædalus (mentor->pupil) “The sister of Dædalus commits her son Perdix to his care, for the purpose of being educated.”
with Dædalus (Dædalus attempted to kill Perdix) “Dædalus was envious, and threw him headlong from the sacred citadel of Minerva, falsely pretending that he had fallen {by accident}.”
with Minerva (Minerva, also called Pallas, transformed Perdix into a bird) “But Pallas, who favours ingenuity, received him, and made him a bird; and, in the middle of the air, he flew upon wings.”
guardian: Dædalus (Dædalus is entrusted with Perdix's education.) “The sister of Dædalus commits her son Perdix to his care, for the purpose of being educated.”
elder kin: Dædalus (Perdix is identified as Dædalus's nephew.) “probably Perdix, his nephew, whose story is related by Ovid.”
enemies with Dædalus (Dædalus's jealousy led to an attempted or actual killing of Perdix.) “Dædalus had been exiled for murdering one of his scholars in a fit of jealousy; probably Perdix, his nephew, whose story is related by Ovid.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.