Icarus

Family: mortal · Role: father of Erigone · First appears: Fable 55

Life events

• Dædalus and Icarus escape Crete by flying on handmade wings.(Fable72 · 📍 Crete)
  • With: Dædalus
  • “And, raised upon his wings, he flies before, and is concerned for his companion, just as the bird which has led forth her tender young from the lofty nest into the air.”
• Icarus flies too high, his wax melts, and he falls into the sea.(Fable72)
  • “The vicinity of the scorching Sun softened the fragrant wax that fastened his wings. The wax was melted; he shook his naked arms, and, wanting his oar-like wings, he caught no {more} air.”
• Dædalus buries Icarus and gives the land its name.(Fable72)
  • With: Dædalus
  • “he buried his body in a tomb, and the land was called from the name of him buried there.”

Fable 55

• child: Erigone “She was the daughter of Icarus, and was placed among the Constellations.”

Fable 72

• parent: Dædalus (parent->child) “His son Icarus stands together with him; and, ignorant that he is handling {the source of} danger to himself, with a smiling countenance, he sometimes catches at the feathers which the shifting breeze is ruffling;”

Also listed in Mortal — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.