Talos or Perdix.
An engineering prodigy, the precocious nephew and protegé of Daedalus, who invented the saw, the potter's wheel, and the radial compass. Talos fell precipitously from the Athenian Acropolis. Daedalus, who had pushed the boy from the top — either accidentally or purposefully in jealous rivalry — was tried for murder in the Areopagus and banished. Talos in some accounts was metamorphosed into a partridge (perdix) during the fall, his soul spared from death. The site of his plunge was commemorated by Athenians as the sanctuary of Polycaste, his mother, who hanged herself in grief over his loss.
      Hyginus knows Daedalus' nephew as Perdix, not Talos. Some editors of Ovid capitalize the word perdix at Ovid Met. 8.236; the account of Talos' wordless celebration of Daedalus' fall may, however, be more poignant if the partridge has less of Talos' human identity. The understated allusion is typical of Ovidian intertextuality.
      
      
       DISAMBIGUATE between this Talos, son of Polycaste (also called Perdix) from Talos the Automaton, robotic sentinel of Crete