Talos Talos In Greek mythology, Talos, also spelled Talus (; , "Talōs") or Talon (; , "Talōn"), was a giant automaton made of bronze to protect Europa in Crete from pirates and invaders. He circled the island's shores three times daily. Talos's bronze nature suggested to the author of "Bibliothēkē" that he may have been a survivor from the Age of Bronze, a descendant of the brazen race that sprang from "meliae" "ash-tree nymphs" according to "Argonautica" 4. The conception that Hesiod's men of the Age of Bronze were actually made of bronze is extended to men of the age of
The Giant Who Had No Heart in His Body there. Thereupon the giant revealed to her that, in fact, in a distant lake was an island, upon which there sat a church; within the church was a well where a duck swam; in the duck's nest was an egg; and in the egg was the giant's heart. The prince rode to the lake, and the wolf jumped to the island. The prince called upon the raven he had saved from starvation, and it brought him the keys to the church. Once inside, he coaxed the duck to him, but it dropped the egg in the well first, and the