 Talos is said to have been made by Hephaestus at the request of Zeus, to protect Europa from people who would want to kidnap her.According to Cinaethon in his poem, Talos was the son of Cres (son of Idaea and Zeus) and the father of Hephaestus who also fathered Rhadamanthys.According to Brian A. Sparkes, "The most detailed treatment in literature is to be found in the "Argonautica" ... however, we have detailed images of the episode, 150 years earlier, dated to around 400 BCE."