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  2. Daedalus - Wikipedia

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    Daedalus and Icarus, c. 1645, by Charles Le Brun (1619–1690) After Theseus and Ariadne eloped together, [38] Daedalus and his son Icarus were imprisoned by King Minos in the labyrinth that he had built. [39] He could not leave Crete by sea, as King Minos kept a strict watch on all vessels, permitting none to sail without being carefully searched.

  3. Icarus - Wikipedia

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    Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun." In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship. [1] [4]

  4. Metamorphoses - Wikipedia

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    Full text; Metamorphoses at ... Minos, the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus ... Pieter Brueghel's painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's ...

  5. Minos - Wikipedia

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    To make sure no one would ever know the secret of who the Minotaur was and how to get out of the Labyrinth (Daedalus knew both of these things), Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, along with the monster. Daedalus and Icarus flew away on wings Daedalus invented, but Icarus' wings melted because he flew too close to the sun. Icarus ...

  6. Golden mean (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Daedalus warns his beloved son whom he loved so much to "fly the middle course", between the sea spray and the sun's heat. Icarus did not heed his father; he flew up and up until the sun melted the wax off his wings. For not heeding the middle course, he fell into the sea and drowned.

  7. Talos (inventor) - Wikipedia

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    After that, he was exiled to the court of Minos: "After the corpse was discovered, Daedalus was tried...and went into exile at the court of Minos." [6] In some accounts, Athena intervened of murder and turned Talos/Perdix into a partridge to save his life. [9] According to Ovid, that partridge later watched the death and burial of Icarus with glee.

  8. President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: Full Text

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    Read below for the full text of Lincoln's address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition ...

  9. Cocalus - Wikipedia

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    After the escape of Daedalus and his son Icarus from King Minos's imprisonment, and the subsequent death of Icarus, Daedalus arrived in Sicily, where he was welcomed by Cocalus. Minos was, however, determined to find Daedalus, and he travelled from city to city offering a challenge: he presented a spiral seashell and asked for it to be strung ...

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