History & The Arts
Icarus: entering the world of myth
...2 Icarus as symbol and signifier - The myth of Daedalus and Icarus, the father and son who escaped from the island of Crete on wings, is told in Book 8 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Icarus has become the more familiar of the two characters as the ancient high-flyer who fell from the sky when the wax that secured his wings was melted by the sun. Icarus’ story connects up...