Icarus: entering the world of myth
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## Contents

- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Ovid as mythographer and myth-maker
- 2 Icarus as symbol and signifier
- 3 Daedalus and Icarus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
- 4 Brueghel and Auden
  - 4.1 Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
  - 4.2 A further angle on the painting
  - 4.3 Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts
  - 4.4 Auden’s Stop All the Clocks
  - 4.5 A further angle on the poems
- Conclusion
- Keep on learning
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements

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