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Daedalus and Icarus

Myth & story

The Cretan–Hellenic episode of wax-wing flight and the son who flies too near the sun. Not labyrinth as a place alone, and not every hubris fall.

Hellenic religion

  • Daedalus and Icarus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names Daedalus’s works and Icarus-neighbor flight speech among Greek art and Crete-fame itinerary. A named Daedalus-and-Icarus telling in that periegesis, not the wings objects alone and not Ovid’s telling as primary seat.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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