, could ever find his way out again.

Daedalus set to work and built a maze so intricate that neither he nor
his son Ic'a-rus, who was with him, could get out. Not willing to
remain there a prisoner, Daedalus soon contrived a means of escape.

[Illustration: Daedalus and Icarus.]

He and Icarus first gathered together a large quantity of feathers, out
of which Daedalus cleverly made two pairs of wings. When these were
fastened to their shoulders by means of wax, father and son rose up like
birds and flew away. In spite of his father's cautions, Icarus rose
higher and higher, until the heat of the sun melted the wax, so that his
wings dropped off, and he fell into the sea and was drowned. His father,
more prudent than he, flew low, and reached Greece in safety. There he
went on inventing useful things, often gazing out sadly over the waters
in which Icarus had perished, and which, in honor of the drowned youth,
were long known as the I-ca'ri-an Sea.

VI. THE ADVENTURES OF JASON.

The Hellenes had not long been masters of all Greece, when a Phryg'i-an
called Pe'lops became master of the peninsula, which from him received
the name of Pel-o-pon-ne'sus. He first taught the people to coin money;
and his descendants, the Pe-lop'i-dae, took possession of all the land
around them, with the exception of Argolis, where the Da-na'i-des
continued to reign.

Some of the Ionians and Achaeans, driven away from their homes by the
Pelopidae, went on board their many vessels, and sailed away. They formed
Hel-len'ic colonies in the neighboring islands along the coast of Asia
Minor, and even in the southern part of Italy.

As some parts of Greece were very thinly settled, and as the people
clustered around the towns where their rulers dwelt, there were wide,
desolate tracts of land between them. Here were many wild beasts and
robbers, who lay in wait for travelers on their way from one settlement
to another. The robbers, who hid in the forests or mountains, were
generally feared and disliked, until at last some brave young warriors
made up their minds to fight against them and to kill them all. These
young men were so brave that they well deserved the name of heroes,
which has always been given them; and they met with many adventures
about which the people loved to hear. Long after they had gone, the
inhabitants, remembering their relief when the robbers were killed,
taught their children to honor these brave young men almost