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| Summary of the Myth of Icarus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Icarus and his inventive father, Daedalus, were being held on an island by King Minos.� Daedalus worked diligently to make wings so that he and his son could escape by air. ��He sewed feathers together like a bird's wings adding feathers using wax.� Upon completion of the wings, Daedalus discovered that they did work!� He then instructed his son not to fly too high into the heavens as the heat from the sun would melt the wax, nor fly too low and have the dampness from the waters wet the feathers (Bulfinch). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Off the two of them went into the sky with their man-made wings.� Icarus followed his father as they flew over the astonished workers in the fields. �Now confident in his new endeavor, Icarus began to go beyond the charge of his father.� He flew higher into the heavens and the heat of the sun melted the wax that was holding the feathers together.� With no feathers left to keep him aloft, Icarus fell to a watery death in the sea below. �Sadly, Daedalus buried his son and named the place of his burial, Icaria (Bulfinch). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bulfinch, Thomas. "Chapter 20 Thesus-Daedalus-Castor and Pollux." Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fables or Stories of Gods and Heroes. 1855. GreekMythology.com. 14 Nov. 2005. <http://www.greekmythology.com/Books/Bulfinch/B_Chapter_20/b_chapter_20.html>. |
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