And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host, John Hagadorn. I have two very old tales for you today.

The first is a famous Greek myth called Icarus and Deadless. And this story reminds us exactly

why young people have a responsibility to obey their parents. For the same good reason,

parents have a responsibility to guide their children.

There are many things adults know that young people don't.

The ancient Greek dramatist Echeless put it this way. Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Safe childhoods and successful upbringing require a measure of obedience as

Ickerus finds out the hard way.

And now our story.

Daedalus was the most skillful builder and inventor of his day in ancient Greece. He built magnificent

palaces and gardens and created wonderful works of art throughout the land. His statues were

so beautifully crafted they were taken for living beings, and it was believed that they could see and walk about.

People said someone is cunning as deadless must have learned the secrets of his craft from the gods themselves.

Now across the sea on the island of Crete lived a king named Minus.

King Minus had a terrible monster that was half bull and half man and it was called the minator,

and he needed someplace to keep it.

When he heard of Dedalus' cleverness, he invited him to come to his country and build a prison to hold the beast.

So, Dedallis and his young son, Ickress, sailed to Crete, and their Deadless built the famous labyrinth, a maze of winding passages so tangled and

twisted that whoever went in could never find a way out, and there they put the

minator.

When the labyrinth was finished, Dedalus wanted to sail back to Greece with his son,

but Minus had made up his mind to keep them in Crete.

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