DAEDALUS AND ICARUS

Daedalus was a highly respected athenian artistan

descendent from the royal family of Cecrops , the

mythical king of Athens.

He was talented in sculpture and a great inventor.

Despite his self-confidence Daedalus committed a

crime of envy against Talus and threw him off of

Acropolis.

For this crime Daedalus was exiled to Crete and

worked for King Minos. There he had a son with the

beautiful Naucrate.

Minos told Daedalus to build a labyrinth in order to

imprison a dreaded Minotaur, which was a monster

with the head of a bull and the body of a man.

Poseidon had sent it to him as a gift. Minos was

shamed by the birth of such a creature and

imprisoned it to the labyrinth where it fed it on

humans.

Theseus was very upset by his action and went to

Crete in order to kill the animal.

Ariadne who was the son of Minos fell in love with

Theseus and with Daedalus they helped him to find

the way back of the labyrinth.

Minos learnt about Daedalus action and he

imprisoned him and Icarus in the labyrinth

themselves.

Daedalus made wings of wax in order to escape.

They managed to escape and to fly away..

..however Daedalus told Icarus not to fly too close to

the sun but Icarus overheared him and his wings

melted.

The sea where he fell was named Icario after him

and the island Heracles discovered his body was

named Icaria.

Music by

Manos Hatzidakis

Peribanou

sung by Savina Giannatou