Facts about Daedalus and Icarus

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   Pieter Bruegel the Elder depicted the myth of Daedalus and Icarus in his painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, where Icarus's legs are barely visible splashing into the sea.

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   Ovid's Metamorphoses is among the most influential ancient sources retelling the story of Daedalus and Icarus in vivid poetic detail.

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   After Icarus fell into the sea, the body of water where he drowned was named the Icarian Sea, located near the Greek island of Icaria.

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   In Greek mythology, Daedalus and Icarus escaped imprisonment in Crete by fashioning wings from feathers and wax, with Daedalus warning his son to fly neither too high nor too low.

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   Daedalus, the craftsman father in the myth, was also credited with designing the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur in Crete.

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   The myth of Daedalus and Icarus warns that Icarus flew too close to the sun, melting the wax that held his feathered wings together.

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