Icarus's father Daedalus, a very talented Athenian craftsman, built a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete near his palace at Knossos to imprison the Minotaur, a half-man, half-bull … See more

Ovid's version of the Icarus myth and its connection to Phaethon influenced the mythological tradition in English literature reflected in the writings of Chaucer, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Milton, and Joyce.
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• Bladud, a legendary king of the Britons, purported to have met his death when his constructed wings failed
• Etana, a sort of "Babylonian Icarus" See more

• The Warburg Institute Iconographic Database (images of Daedalus and Icarus) See more

Accounts of Icarus's story are found in Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca (Epitome i.12–13); Diodorus Siculus's Bibliotheca historica (4.77.5–9); Hyginus's Fabulae (40); Virgil's Aeneid (vi.14–33); and Ovid's Metamorphoses (viii.183–235). A number of other … See more

Literary interpretation has considered the myth of Icarus as a consequence of excessive ambition. An Icarus-related study of the Daedalus myth was published by the French hellenist Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux. In psychology, there have been synthetic studies of … See more

• Graves, Robert, (1955) 1960. The Greek Myths, section 92 passim
• Pinsent, J. (1982). Greek Mythology. New York: Peter … See more