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| The Lament For Icarus by Herbert James Draper. |
There are other ancient sources that set Daedalus and Icarus imprisoned in the Labyrinth, even Ovid in Book VIII of his Metamorphoses].
Daedalus built wings of feathers and attacked their bodies with wax to escape from the labyrinth. Despite the warnings of his father not to fly too high, Icarus overwhelmed by the elation of flight, got too close to the sun and the heat melted the wax. He lost his wings and fell into the sea where he died. The father arrived safely in Sicily, where he built a temple dedicated to Apollo, in memory of his son Icarus.
