He came too close to the sun, and the heat melted the beeswax holding his feathers together. Overcome by giddiness while flying, Icarus disobeyed his father and soared into the sky. Before trying to escape the island, he warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos's daughter, Ariadne, a clew (or ball of string) in order to help Theseus escape the labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.ĭaedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of beeswax and feathers for himself and his son. Icarus's father Daedalus, a very talented Athenian craftsman, built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan bull. In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship. The myth gave rise to the idiom, " fly too close to the sun." Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. Icarus ignored Daedalus’ instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Daedalus warned Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea's dampness clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus and Daedalus escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from feathers, threads from blankets, clothes, and beeswax.
After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalus had revealed the labyrinth's secrets and imprisoned them-either in a large tower overlooking the ocean or the labyrinth itself, depending upon the account. In Greek mythology, Icarus ( / ˈ ɪ k ə r ə s/ Ancient Greek: Ἴκαρος, romanized: Íkaros, pronounced ) was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete.
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