Icarus

Role: son of Daedalus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.6

Life events

• Hercules buried Icarus and renamed Doliche Icaria.(Apollodorus, Library 2.6 · 📍 Doliche)
  • With: Heracles
  • “And having put in to the island of Doliche, he saw the body of Icarus washed ashore and buried it, and he called the island Icaria instead of Doliche.”
• Icarus flew too high, fell into the sea, and perished despite Daedalus’s warning.(Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 Icarian)
  • With: Daedalus
  • “But the infatuated Icarus, disregarding his father's injunctions, soared ever higher, till, the glue melting, he fell into the sea called after him Icarian, and perished.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.6

• with Heracles (Hercules buried Icarus.) “he saw the body of Icarus washed ashore and buried it”

Apollodorus, Epitome 1

• parent: Daedalus “along with his son Icarus, who had been borne to Daedalus by Naucrate, a female slave of Minos.”
• parent: Naucrate “along with his son Icarus, who had been borne to Daedalus by Naucrate, a female slave of Minos.”

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