🪶 ICARUS: FLYING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN
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AFTER THE LABYRINTH
A FATHER PLANS ESCAPE
After Daedalus built the Labyrinth for King Minos, the inventor and his son Icarus were held on Crete. Minos did not want the secret of the maze to leave freely. The sea blocked normal escape, and the palace watched the shores. Daedalus always thought like a builder. He looked up instead of out. If ships and roads were closed, maybe the sky was still open. That idea would lead to wings of feather and wax, and a famous warning about flying too far.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
This tale is most famously told in Ovid's Metamorphoses, a Roman poem that retells many Greek myths.
TRAP!
MINOS
👑 King Minos kept Daedalus close so the Labyrinth's secrets would not leave Crete.
🧠 The clever inventor began looking at the open sky as a new kind of road.
🧠 The clever inventor began looking at the open sky as a new kind of road.
SON
👦 Young Icarus waited with his father, trapped on an island he did not choose.
🧠 Daedalus invented a daring plan that used feathers, wax, and careful flying rules.
🧠 Daedalus invented a daring plan that used feathers, wax, and careful flying rules.