![]() ![]() At first everything went well, but after a little while Icarus got tired of just flying in a straight line. ![]() History of beeswaxĭaedalus warned his son to be careful when he was flying: if he went too close to the sea, he might fall in, but if he flew too high in the sky, the heat of the sun would melt the wax on his wings and he would fall. Daedalus and Icarus escapeĭaedalus and Icarus made the wings out of bird feathers and wax and they tied the wings on to each other. ![]() He watched the birds flying and he thought how free they were, and he decided to make wings for himself and Icarus. Now Daedalus and Icarus did not like being prisoners, and so Daedalus began to think about how they could get away. The Minotaur’s labyrinth Daedalus a prisonerĪfter Daedalus built the Labyrinth, though, King Minos did not want him to be able to tell its secrets to anybody else, and so he kept Daedalus a prisoner in a tall tower, all alone with only his young son Icarus. There are stories about Daedalus inventing all kinds of things, but he is especially supposed to have built the great Labyrinth for King Minos to keep the Minotaur in. Bronze Age CreteĪll our ancient Greece articles The Labyrinth on Crete He had living in his palace at Knossos a great architect and inventor named Daedalus. Once upon a time on the island of Crete, maybe about 1325 BC, there was a king whose name was Minos (in the story this is only a story). Daedalus and Icarus: Icarus falling (on a wall painting from Pompeii,about 79 AD) Daedalus the inventor ![]()
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