When Dædalus threw his nephew over the high walls of the Acropolis, and naturally thought that he had killed him—an opinion in which it is apparent the people of Athens shared—he was very much mistaken, for Minerva, the patron goddess of the city, realizing what a great mistake it would be to allow so bright and promising a young man to go to an early death, exercised her magic, and saved him by changing the falling artisan into a bird, which was given his name, “Perdix,” or, as translated, Partridge. To Perdix, who was especially skilful as a worker in wood, is attributed, in addition to the invention of the saw, suggested to him by the backbone of a fish or the teeth of a serpent, it would be difficult to say which, the chisel, the compasses and the potter’s wheel. Whether he invented any of these things after he became a partridge or not is another mythical uncertainty, but probably not, as his changed condition and feathers would have made it very awkward for him to have done so, although most anything was possible in those days. Perdix is also called Talos by some writers, and Pausanias mentions him by still another name, Calos, and states that after his death he was buried somewhere on the road leading from the theatre in Athens to the Acropolis. It might be interesting, but certainly a task beyond the scope of this book, to mention all the mythical personages of the archaic or early period of Grecian art, who were in a way more or less remote, responsible for special features of artistic treatment that graced the buildings of that time, such, for instance, as Dibutades, who was the first to make masks on the edges of gutter tiles. Dibutades was a sculptor, and the idea which he originated is said to have been suggested to him by seeing his daughter trace the lines of her lover’s profile around the shadow which it cast upon a wall. He filled in the lines with clay, and, moulding it to the face, gave to the world the art of modelling. Among the artists belonging to the Dædalien, or legendary period of Greece, who may be classed more distinctively as architects, however, were Polycritus, who had to do with the building of the town of Tanagra by Poemander, and Pteras, who was supposed to have been the architect of the second temple to Apollo at Delphi. The legend is that the first temple was made of branches of the wild laurel from Tempe, and that Pteras constructed the second of wax and bees’ wings—rather an unsubstantial building material, it might be inferred. Eucheir, a painter, and Chersiphron and Smilis, architects and statuaries, are also of this traditional period, and were representative of skill in their arts.