Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Daedalion.
The gallery
The Death of Chione
Nicolas Poussin, c. 1622
Poussin stages Artemis' arrow through Chione's tongue — the blasphemy that shatters Daedalion. In Ovid the grieving father races to Parnassus and is changed into a hawk before he can fall; the painting freezes the death that drives that metamorphosis.
Daedalion Transformed into a Hawk
Lionel de Nicéville (after classical type), 1907
Early twentieth-century plate of Daedalion mid-change: Apollo's pity turns the warrior's leap from Parnassus into the hawk that still hunts other birds — Ovid's aetiology of the raptor's rage.
Diana Killing Chione
Antonio Tempesta, 1606
Tempesta's Metamorphoses plate (MET): Diana's arrow strikes Chione while her twin sons look on — the crime that sends Daedalion toward the cliff and the hawk.
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Metamorphoses
Ovid
Book 11: after Artemis kills Chione, Daedalion leaps from Parnassus and Apollo changes him into a hawk — the morning-star's fierce son become bird of prey.
Daedalion
Son of Phosphorus and father of Chione — warrior turned hawk in Ovid's Metamorphoses.