That's really interesting - and it shows that the Greeks did have wheelchairs - since if devising a mobile chair with wings for the god, wheels would not be necessary. The wings were added to an existing device for the disabled.

In the same way, though not helpful for knowing about disability, an Anglo-Saxon illustration shows the fixings for Wayland's wings (in a Daedalus parallel, not related to his disability). These are clearly no use at all for a flying device, but exactly like the means used by primary school teachers to fix angels' wings in Nativity plays - suggesting that the illustrator had seen a drama based on the Wayland story - or it does to me.

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