One of the characters in the Greek mythology what more fame has is Icarus, the son of the master craftsman Dédalos, a native of Athens. Daedalos built the famous Labyrinth of King Minos in Crete, the one that was in the Palace of Knossos and contained the dangerous Minotaur, the half-man, half-monster creature born of a Cretan bull and his own wife. But Minos was not a very good type to say and ended up locking Daedalos in the labyrinth since the craftsman had given the king's daughter a thread so that she could help Theseus, the enemy of her father, also locked in the game.
We know that Theseus finally managed to kill the minotaur and leave the labyrinth with the "Aridana thread" and then escape with the young woman and abandon her on an island, but if we look at the story again, the character of Icarus attracts our interest. Daedalos also built his son a pair of wax wings and used them first to get off the island. He later warned him not to fly too close to the sun or the sea and to continue on his way in flight. But the boy was curious so in flight he got very close to the sun and the heat melted his wings and feathers so he fell into the sea. Today this part of the sea is called the Sea of Icarus.
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