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Daedalus and Icarus: the price of the desire to touch the sky
Daedalus, the greatest craftsman of antiquity, built the Labyrinth of Crete for King Minos. After helping Theseus kill the Minotaur, he was imprisoned together with his son Icarus. To escape, Daedalus made wings of feathers and wax. Before the flight, he warned Icarus: do not fly too low, the sea would wet the feathers, nor too high, the sun would melt the wax. Icarus, intoxicated by freedom, soared toward the sun. The wax melted, the wings broke, and the boy fell into the sea and died. Daedalus buried him on the island thereafter called Icaria. The myth embodies the eternal human tension between the audacity to exceed one’s limits (Icarus) and the wisdom to know one’s measures (Daedalus), and the price of hybris.
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