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Wings of Daedalus

Objects · Myth & story

Named wax-and-feather wings of the Daedalus story, made for the Cretan flight. Not the wings of Icarus as a second pair, and not a generic bird.

Hellenic religion

  • Wings of Daedalus appears in Hellenic religion.

    Ovid’s Metamorphoses tells Daedalus’s wings and Icarus’s fall. A named Daedalus-wings episode in that poem, not Icarus as a missing person id and not every flight dump.

    from Ovid · Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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