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  1. Icarus – Mythopedia

    Aug 8, 2023 · Overview Icarus was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, born on Crete and imprisoned alongside his father in the Labyrinth by King Minos. Daedalus fashioned wings from bird …

  2. What is the moral of the myth of Icarus? - Mythology & Folklore Stack ...

    May 23, 2016 · Icarus's fall is a warning about youthful carelessness, and shows the terrible consequences that can bring. Diadorus Siculus tells two versions of the story, both of which …

  3. Daedalus – Mythopedia

    Sep 7, 2023 · Daedalus was a craftsman from Athens who designed the famous Labyrinth—the prison of the Minotaur—and other marvelous creations for the Cretan king Minos. He and his son Icarus …

  4. What more is known of Iapyx? - Mythology & Folklore Stack Exchange

    Apr 16, 2018 · Iapyx is the son of Daedalus, brother to Icarus. Apollo gave him the gift of healing and was with Aeneas as a hand-full of Trojans fled the fallen city. What more is known between/after …

  5. Metamorphoses: Book 8 (Full Text) - Mythopedia

    His boy, young Icarus, that near him stood, Unthinking of his fate, with smiles pursu’d The floating feathers, which the moving air Bore loosely from the ground, and wasted here and there. Or with the …

  6. Homeric Hymns: 1. To Dionysus (Full Text) - Mythopedia

    I. TO DIONYSUS [1] (1–9) ( (lacuna)) . . . For some say, at Dracanum; and some, on windy Icarus; and some, in Naxos, O Heaven-born, Insewn [2]; and others by the deep-eddying river Alpheus that …

  7. Prometheus – Mythopedia

    Mar 8, 2023 · Prometheus, the son of Iapetus, was a quick-witted Greek Titan who sided with the Olympians in their war against his Titan brethren. For gifting fire to humanity, he was sentenced to …

  8. Aeneid: Book 6 (Full Text) - Mythopedia

    Here hapless Icarus had found his part, Had not the father’s grief restrain’d his art. He twice assay’d to cast his son in gold; Twice from his hands he dropp’d the forming mold.

  9. Mythology & Folklore Stack Exchange Community Digest

    What is the moral of the myth of Icarus? Icarus, the son of Daedalus who created the maze that held the Minotaur was given wings which allowed him to fly away from the Island of Crete.

  10. Homeric Hymns – Mythopedia

    Jul 14, 2025 · The Homeric Hymns, traditionally attributed to Homer, are a collection of thirty-three poems, each one honoring an individual god (or group of gods). Mostly composed between the …