In the Greek Mythology, Icare (in Greek old Ἴκαρος / Ikaros ) is the son of the architect Dédale and a slave crétoise, Naupacté. It is known mainly to have flown too much close to the Sun.

Myth

Icare and Dédale seek to escape the revenge on Minos which continued Dédale because this last had helped Pasiphae to be coupled with a white bull (what gave rise to Minotaure). According to the most widespread version, Maze with the idea to flee Crete to manufacture wings similar to those of the birds, made with Wax and feathers. Maze warns his/her son, prohibiting to him to approach too much close to the sun. But Icare, grayed by the flight, forgets the interdict and taking too much altitude, it dissolves gradually wax. Its wings end up betraying it and he dies precipitated in the sea.

Pausanias delivers a more prosaic version of the legend: according to him, Maze and Icare flee Crete in small naves - Maze having invented for this purpose the principle of the veil, hitherto unknown with the men. But Icare, awkward navigator, made shipwreck with broad of Samos. Its body is found on banks of the island by Héraclès, which gives him a burial and re-elects Samos and the sea around name of late (Icarie). This version is corroborated by Diodore, which specifies just that Icare fell by precipitation in the sea where it drowned.

Topics

The myth of Icare approaches topics like the relations father-wire, as well as the desire of the Homme of going always further, with the risk of having to find itself face to face with its condition of simple human being.

Sources

  • (II, 6,3), (I, 12-13).
  • (IV).
  • (XL).
  • (IV, 284 and 567), (VIII, 183-235).
  • (IX, 11,4-5).

See too

External bonds

  • '' Dédale and Icare '' of Ovide: text and comment.

Simple: Icarus

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