Icarus - Mythology.
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Icarus - Mythology. Greek Son of the great inventor Daedalus. When Daedalus wanted to escape from the island of Crete, where he was being held prisoner by King Minos, he invented and crafted wings from the feathers of birds, held together by wax. He and Icarus took flight, but Icarus ignored the warnings of his father and flew too near the Sun. The heat of the Sun melted the wax, and Icarus's wings fell apart. Icarus plummeted into the sea and drowned. The Icarian Sea, a part of the Aegean Sea between Turkey and the Greek islands of Patmos and Leros, is named after him.
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