Editing Talos (section)

===Cretan lineage===
{{anchor|death of Talos krater anchor}}[[File:Vaso di Talos particolare.JPG|thumb|The death of Talos depicted on a Volute [[Krater]] circa 400 BCE ([[Jatta National Archaeological Museum]] in [[Ruvo di Puglia]])]]
In a different tradition, Talos is the son of [[Cres (mythology)|Cres]], the personification of Crete. Hephaestus is his son, and [[Rhadamanthus]] – a mythical king of Crete – his grandson. This tradition is reported by [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], who cites the poet [[Cinaethon of Sparta]] as his source.<ref>{{cite book |author=Pausanias |author-link=Pausanias (geographer) |title=[[Description of Greece]] |at=[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:8.53 8. 53.2–5]}}</ref> Pausanias states at another point that Talos was one of the sons of [[Oenopion]], without giving a source.<ref>{{cite book |author=Pausanias |author-link=Pausanias (geographer) |title=[[Description of Greece]] |at=[http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.4.8 7.4.8]}}</ref> Pausanias gives no details of Talos outside of his genealogy.<ref name="buxton-89"/>

According to [[Athenaeus]], the lyric poet [[Ibycus]] wrote of [[Rhadamanthus]] as the lover of Talos, rather than grandson.<ref>Ibycus Fragment 32 in {{cite book |editor-last=Edmonds |editor-first=J. M.|title=Lyrae Graeca Vol. 2|publisher=Loeb Classical Library, Harvard University Press|year=1924 |page=101}}</ref> The [[Suda]], a Byzantine encyclopedia from the tenth-century CE, adds to this that Talos and Rhadamanthus introduced homosexuality to Crete.<ref>Suda s.v. Theta 41. [https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/theta/41  Θάμυρις].</ref>