“It is a plane, a totem with wings, or it could be Daedalus or Icarus.” The latter was the wing-bearing offspring in the myth who flew too close to the sun and perished. The counterbalance to ...

He's thinking of the Greek myth about Daedalus, a craftsman who built a labyrinth to entrap the Minotaur, only to be imprisoned in his own maze by King Minos of Crete. To escape, Daedalus used ...

Reimagining the classic Greek Myth of Daedalus and the Minataur, Percy and his Camp Half-Blood buds have to venture deep into the depths of the Earth to defeat the challenges of an intricate maze ...

The ancient Greek myth of Icarus parallels addictive diseases, where individuals fail to recognize limits or act without regard for consequences. It tells the story of Icarus and his father Daedalus, ...

The monster was placed inside a labyrinth of Daedalus’s design and fed a tribute of Athenian ... Charlotte Higgins’s fascination with labyrinths and, in particular, the myth of the Minotaur, which ...

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A Greek mythology obsession is basically a middle school rite of passage (right up there with the classic Ancient Egypt hyper-fixation). There’s something larger-than-life about Greek myths that ...