↑ Epitome of the Biblioteca i.11 and ii.6.3.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Stevenson : Ovid - Metamorphoses - Book VIII + Translated by Rolfe Humphries - KET Distance Learning ↑ Thomas Bullfinch - The Age of Fable Stories of Gods and Heroes & The Internet Classics Archive by Daniel C.The etymology of the word " clue" is a direct reference to this story of the Labyrinth. ↑ Larissa Bonfante, Judith Swaddling, Etruscan Myths, p.A still photo from the episode's shoot scene with Mike Wallace is on page 68 of the book ' 60 Minutes': 25 Years of Television's Finest Hour (1993) by Frank Coffey. Additionally, a 60 Minutes television episode titled "Ever Since Icarus" (airdate Augon CBS) addressed the renaissance of human flying with hang gliders. The myth of Icarus appears frequently in hang gliding literature. The first two were in 19 the third was announced in March 2009. The name Icarus has been used on two previous and one current occasion for projects involving space-flight. Ikarus 1993 by Simon Benetton (Bonn Opera House). Henry Murray having proposed the term Icarus complex, apparently found symptoms particularly in mania where a person is fond of heights, fascinated by both fire and water, narcissistic and observed with fantastical or far-fetched-imaginary cognition. In the psychiatric mind features of disease were perceived in the shape of the pendulous emotional ecstatic- high and depressive- low of bi-polar disorder. In psychology there have been synthetic studies of the Icarus complex with respect to the alleged relationship between fascination for fire, enuresis, high ambition, and ascensionism. An Icarus-related study of the Daedalus myth was published by the French hellenist Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux. Literary interpretation has found in the myth the structure and consequence of personal over-ambition (Levin 1952).
Other English-language poems referencing the Icarus myth are "To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Triumph" by Anne Sexton, "Icarus Again" by Alan Devenish and "Mrs Icarus" by Carol Ann Duffy.ġ7th-century relief with a Cretan labyrinth bottom right (Musée Antoine Vivenel). Auden and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" by William Carlos Williams. The 16th-century painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, traditionally but perhaps erroneously attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, was the inspiration for two of the 20th century's most notable ecphrastic English-language poems, "Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. In Renaissance iconography, the significance of Icarus depends on context: in the Orion Fountain at Messina, he is one of many figures associated with water but he is also shown on the Bankruptcy Court of the Amsterdam Town Hall - where he symbolizes high-flying ambition. Ovid's treatment of the Icarus myth and its connection with that of Phaëton influenced the mythological tradition in English literature as received and interpreted by major writers such as Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Joyce. Ovid narrates the story of Icarus at some length in the Metamorphoses (viii.183–235), and refers to it elsewhere. Hyginus narrates it in Fabula 40, beginning with the bovine love affair of Pasiphaë, daughter of the Sun, resulting in the birth of the Minotaur. In the literature of ancient Rome, the myth was of interest to Augustan writers. Icarus' flight was often alluded to by Greek poets in passing, but the story was told briefly in Pseudo-Apollodorus. Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. Overcome by the giddiness that flying lent him, Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Daedalus tried his wings first, but before taking off from the island, warned his son not to fly too close to the sun, nor too close to the sea, but to follow his path of flight. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minos' daughter, Ariadne, a clew (or ball of string) in order to help Theseus, the enemy of Minos, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur.ĭaedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son.
Icarus's father Daedalus, a talented and remarkable Athenian craftsman, built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull monster born of his wife and the Cretan Bull.
The Lament for Icarus by Herbert James Draper.