Back to Crete King Nisus is at war with Minos, King of Crete – Nisus has a special protection, a purple lock of hair. Scylla, daughter of Nisus, falls in love with Minos. She betrays her father by cutting off his purple lock of hair and taking it to Minos. Minos (who much later became a judge in the underworld) refused the lock and the woman, outraged at her betrayal of her father. She turns to a sea bird and her father to an osprey. Minos returns to Crete.

Also on Crete – Daedalus, the engineer/crafts-man/designer and his son, Icarus

Daedalus created wings so that he and his son could escape the island of Crete. But he cautioned his son to fly the middle route—halfway between sun and sea—or he might either melt the wax on his wings or wet them down and make them useless. Icarus ignored his father’s instructions, and when he flew too high the wax on his wings melted and he plunged to his death.

What other myth is similar to this and also about fathers and sons?

Calydon requested help from Athens Meleager, son of the king of Calydon had an unusual birth – Althea, his mother, dreamed that her son’s life was tied to a chunk of wood in the fire. She pulled it out and locked it away to keep him safe. Giant boar was ravaging the countryside in Calydon. Heroes of the day (many, fathers of Trojan War heroes) gathered to kill it Meleager went on the hunt, helped by Castor and Pollux, Jason, Theseus, Nestor, Atalanta, etc. Atalanta was a huntress and beautiful.

Meleager fell in love with Atalanta.

Rubens Atalanta & Meleager The men, especially Meleager’s uncles, disputed Atalanta’s right to the trophy—the boar’s head—but Meleager awarded it to Atalanta anyway.

Meleager’s death In quarrel over spoils of the boar hunt, he killed his uncles. Althea, in anger, tossed the brand into the fire and killed her son. Meleager