Icarus

Role: son of Dædalus · First appears: Book 9 · Chapter 11

Life events

• Icarus’s boat overturned, and he was drowned.(Book 9 · Chapter 11)
  • “Icarus steering his boat rather awkwardly it upset they say, and he was drowned”
• Hercules recognized and buried Icarus’s corpse.(Book 9 · Chapter 11)
  • With: Hercules
  • “And Hercules found and recognised the corpse, and buried it”

Book 9 · Chapter 11

• parent: Dædalus “the boats he made were not large enough both for himself and Icarus his son”
• with Hercules (Hercules found, recognized, and buried Icarus's corpse.) “And Hercules found and recognised the corpse, and buried it, where now is a mound of no great size, by the promontory that juts out into the Ægean Sea.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.