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  • Icarus – Mythopedia
    Overview Icarus was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, born on Crete and imprisoned alongside his father in the Labyrinth by King Minos Daedalus fashioned wings from bird feathers and wax to enable him and Icarus to fly to freedom But Icarus, despite his father’s warnings, flew too close to the sun; the wax of his wings melted, and he plummeted to his death The sad tale of Icarus
  • greek - What is the moral of the myth of Icarus? - Mythology Folklore . . .
    Icarus's fall is a warning about youthful carelessness, and shows the terrible consequences that can bring Diadorus Siculus tells two versions of the story, both of which emphasize the recklessness of Icarus causing his downfall: But when Icarus was disembarking onto the island in a reckless manner, he fell into the sea and perished
  • Daedalus – Mythopedia
    Daedalus was a craftsman from Athens who designed the famous Labyrinth—the prison of the Minotaur—and other marvelous creations for the Cretan king Minos He and his son Icarus were imprisoned by Minos, but they managed to escape on wings that Daedalus had built
  • What more is known of Iapyx? - Mythology Folklore Stack Exchange
    Iapyx is the son of Daedalus, brother to Icarus Apollo gave him the gift of healing and was with Aeneas as a hand-full of Trojans fled the fallen city What more is known between after these snipp
  • Homeric Hymns: 1. To Dionysus (Full Text) - Mythopedia
    I TO DIONYSUS [1] (1–9) ( (lacuna)) For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn [2]; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that pregnant Semele bare you to Zeus the thunder-lover And others yet, lord, say you were born in Thebes; but all these lie The Father of men and gods gave you birth remote from men and secretly from
  • Aeneid: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
    Here hapless Icarus had found his part, Had not the father’s grief restrain’d his art He twice assay’d to cast his son in gold; Twice from his hands he dropp’d the forming mold
  • Cumae – Mythopedia
    Cumae was a colony on the Campanian mainland, founded by Greek settlers around 740 BCE The city had a rich and important history; it eventually entered myth as the site of a temple of Apollo and the seat of the Cumaean Sibyl, a famous prophetess
  • myth identification - Did any Greek mythological hero father a son who . . .
    If Icarus "doesn't count" because his father "did more", perhaps you want something like "achievement" instead of "fame" in your title and question While it may be true that Daedalus did more, or is known for more things (by people who know those sort of things), I'd still argue that Icarus is more famous (to a wider population) than his father




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