THE MYTH OF
DAEDALUS AND ICARUS.
Daedalus and Icarus
Daedalus was a brilliant inventor and a master
craftsman of Athens, the kingdom of Hercules. As an artificer he was too egoistic and proud. He
used to make lifelong sculptures for the King that even the King mistook
it. Once the skilled Daedalus, out of
jealousy, murders his nephew (who was more skilled than him). He was banished
from Athens and went to Crete. He continued to cross his limits by inventing
mechanical toys (so realistic that they seemed lively) for King Minos’s
children and helped Minos’s wife -Pasiphae in seducing a bull for which she was
been cursed by God Poseidon to fall in love with King’s prized bull. As a
result, the wife of King gave birth to half-man half-bull and the King blamed
Daedalus for the whole event that he and his son has to be remain imprisoned
for the rest of their lives in an inescapable labyrinth for which Daedalus was
forced to construct such a labyrinth on an island.
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| Daedalus made wings out of wax and feathers |
Daedalus, still a genius, constructed two pair of huge wings from feathers
and wax. He and his son Icarus escaped from the prison. While strapping the
wings to his son, Daedalus gave a warning to his son neither to fly too near
the ocean nor too near the sun. Either could harm the wings and he could die.
Therefore the trick was to fly in middle, nor near the ocean for which the
wings shall be wet neither near the sun for which the wax would melt. They both
tried to fly in the sky, the first-ever mortals to fly. While Daedalus was
consistent, his son Icarus, overjoyed with the feeling of flight and felt like
divine power felled from such a height because of his melted wings, as he had
gone too near the sun.
Daedalus could only watch the terrific fall of his son with his fearful
eyes. He faced the catastrophic result of his innovative action of doing
something beyond the boundaries of the mortals.
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| Icarus ignored the advice of his father and met a tragic death |
Icarus faced death because of his hubris
(excessive pride) of considering himself like immortal and Daedalus regretted
for his deeds.
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