Editing Daedalus (section)

===Icarus===
[[File:De val van Icarus.jpg|thumb|Print of Icarus falling after his wings were broken.<ref>{{Cite web|title=De val van Icarus|url=https://lib.ugent.be/viewer/archive.ugent.be:D1CDDE7A-78F2-11EA-9B8B-089BA936FAF6#?c=&m=&s=&cv=&xywh=-2235,296,8825,4736|access-date=2020-10-02|website=lib.ugent.be}}</ref>]]
The most familiar literary telling explaining Daedalus' wings is a late one by Ovid in his ''[[Metamorphoses]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 183|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.183-235&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>[[File:Charles Le Brun - Daedalus and Icarus - WGA12535.jpg|thumb| ''Daedalus and Icarus'', c. 1645, by [[Charles Le Brun]] (1619–1690) |left]]After Theseus and Ariadne eloped together,<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 152|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.182&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Daedalus and his son [[Icarus]] were imprisoned by King Minos in the labyrinth that he had built.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Apollodorus, Epitome, book E, chapter 1|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022:text=Epitome:book=E:chapter=1&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> He could not leave Crete by sea, as King Minos kept a strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched. Since Minos controlled the land routes as well, Daedalus set to work to make wings for himself and his son Icarus. Using bird feathers of various sizes, thread, and beeswax, he shaped them to resemble a bird's wings. When both were prepared for flight, Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high, because the heat of the sun would melt the beeswax that held his feathers together, nor too low, because the sea foam would soak the feathers and make them heavy and he would fall.<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 183|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.183-235&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> After Daedalus and Icarus had passed [[Samos]], [[Delos]], and [[Lebynthos]], Icarus disobeyed his father and began to soar upward toward the sun. Without any warning, the sun melted the beeswax (which held the feathers together). Icarus was flapping his "wings". But he realized he had no feathers left and was flapping his featherless arms. And he plunged into the sea and drowned. Seeing Icarus' wings floating, Daedalus wept, cursed his art, and after finding Icarus's body on an island shore buried him there. Then he named the island [[Icaria]] in the memory of his child.<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 183|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.183-235&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> The southeast end of the Aegean Sea where Icarus fell into the water was also called "Mare Icarium" or the Icarian Sea.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), AEGAEUM MARE|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0064:entry=aegaeum-mare-geo&highlight=daedalus|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>[[File:Herbert Draper - The Lament for Icarus - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''[[The Lament for Icarus]]'' by [[Herbert James Draper|H. J. Draper]] (1898)]] In a twist of fate, a partridge, presumably the nephew Daedalus murdered, mocked Daedalus as he buried his son. The fall and death of Icarus is seemingly portrayed as punishment for Daedalus's murder of his nephew.<ref>{{Cite web|title=P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses, Book 8, line 183|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+8.183-235&fromdoc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028|access-date=2021-06-07|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref>