In Greek mythology,

Icarus (Greek: Ίκαρος) was the son of the master Athenian craftsman Daedalus. Daedalus built the Labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur. Minos imprisoned Daedalus himself in the labyrinth because he gave Minoss daughter, Ariadne, a ball of string in order to help Theseus, to survive the Labyrinth and defeat the Minotaur. Icarus and Daedalus attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that Daedalus constructed from feathers and wax. Daedalus warns Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the seas dampness clog his wings or the suns heat melt them. Icarus ignores Daedalus’ instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the wax in his wings to melt. He tumbles out of the sky, falls into the sea, and drowns. The myth gave rise to the idiom "dont fly too close to the sun". Daedalus wept for his son and called the nearest land Icaria, in the memory of him Today, the supposed site of his burial on the island bears his name, and the sea near Icaria in which he drowned is called the Icarian Sea.

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