Daedalion
Δαιδαλίων
The father who lost his daughter, leapt from a cliff, and became a hawk in mid-fall.
Son of the morning star Eosphorus, and brother of Ceyx, who became a kingfisher. Ovid sets the brothers against each other: the younger born for peace, the elder for war.
When his daughter Chione died by Artemis's arrow, he was held back from throwing himself on the blazing pyre — and finally leapt from the summit of Parnassus.
Apollo changed him into a hawk as he fell. Of that bird, fierce to all other birds, Ovid writes that it avenges its own grief upon others — a temperament turned straight into feathers.
SourcesOvid, Metamorphoses
Not Daedalus, the craftsman who built the Labyrinth. Both names come from the same word — "to work with cunning craft" (daidallo).