A Minoan Shrine by Peter Connolly
"Father Zeus, surely great wonder rises in my mind, seeing that dire destruction
meets us not from disease and wounds alone, but lo! even from afar, may be, it
tortures us! So Talos, for all his frame of bronze, yielded the victory to the
might of Medea the sorceress. And as he was heaving massy rocks to stay them
from reaching the haven, he grazed his ankle on a pointed crag; and the ichor
gushed forth like melted lead; and not long thereafter did he stand towering on
the jutting cliff. But even as some huge pine, high up on the mountains, which
woodmen have left half hewn through by their sharp axes when they returned from
the forest—at first it shivers in the wind by night, then at last snaps
at the stump and crashes down; so Talos for a while stood on his tireless feet,
swaying to and fro, when at last, all strengthless, fell with a mighty thud.
For that night there in Crete the heroes lay; then, just as dawn was growing
bright, they built a shrine to Minoan Athena, and drew water and went aboard,
so that first of all they might by rowing pass beyond Salmone’s height."
-Apollonius Rhodius, The Argonautica: Book IV
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