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noun - (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus
The son of Daedalus who, in escaping from Crete on artificial wings made for him by his father, flew so close to the sun that the wax with which his wings were fastened melted, and he fell into the Aegean Sea.
An asteroid with an eccentric orbit approaching within 30 million kilometers (19 million miles) of the sun.
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| Objects that pass closer to the sun than Mercury have been named for this mythological figure |
| (Jon of the Clue Crew poses with a seascape.) W.H. Auden wrote, "Everything turns away quite leisurely from a disaster" in Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of" this mythical flier |
| Canova's statue "Daedalus And" this doomed son looked so real, he was accused of making casts of live models |
| We often wax nostalgic about this young man who flew too close to the sun |
| Despite his dad's warnings, he flew too close to the sun; the wax on his wings melted & he plunged into the sea |
| One island is the supposed burial place of this reckless mythical flier, & is named for him |
| Ikaria is named for this mythical aeronaut who plunged to his death |
| Mythological son who waxed then waned as he fell into the sea |
| This high flyer's father built the Labyrinth |
| Son of Daedalus, his first flying lesson is generally considered something of a failure |
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| (Greek mythology) son of Daedalus while escaping from Crete with his father (using the wings Daedalus had made) he flew too close to the sun and the wax melted and he fell into the Aegean and drowned |
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In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: , Íkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Icarus and his father attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers and wax. Icarus' father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun; when the wax in his wings melted he tumbled out of the sky and fell into the sea where he drowned, sparking the idiom "don't fly too close to the sun". * This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon. |