Category: Greek Mythological Figure · Origin: Greek Mythology, Ovid
Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus in Greek myth. To escape imprisonment on Crete, Daedalus fashioned wings of feathers and wax and warned his son to fly neither too low, lest the sea soak the feathers, nor too high, lest the sun melt the wax. Intoxicated by flight, Icarus soared too near the sun; the wax melted, and he fell into the sea and drowned. He endures as the eternal emblem of soaring ambition, hubris, and the thin line between transcendence and ruin.
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A winged youth falling from a bright sky toward the sea as the wax of his wings melts and feathers scatter