5/8/2023 0 Comments Edith greek mythologyOne of the great tragic love stories from Greek mythology, the tale of the musician Orpheus and his lover Eurydice features the Underworld. Famously, to look upon snake-haired Medusa (the snakes were her punishment for being vain and proud of her hair) was enough to turn the viewer to stone, so Perseus cunningly used a mirrored shield to approach Medusa in her cave so that he could cut her head off without looking directly at her. Perseus’ defeat of Medusa, one of the Gorgons, is well-known. Now, Icarus’ name is a byword for one of the Greeks’ most favourite themes: hubris, or overreaching oneself. He fell to his death, drowning in the Aegean. However, Icarus got carried away and flew too close to the sun, which melted the wax in his wings. Ever the inventor, Daedalus fashioned some wings out of feathers and wax, for him and his son to use to fly their way off the island of Crete. Icarus was the son of Daedalus, the craftsman who built the Labyrinth from the Minotaur story recounted above. The story of Icarus is one of the most famous tales from Greek myth.
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