Daedalus And Icarus In Homer's Odyssey

Daedalus had insisted that the pair talk about it after they escaped the labyrinth, which was kind of like saying, Hey, you are not mature enough to make your own choices. Sleep well! It had been a restless night. All Icarus could think about was taking flight. He'd spent all morning long brooding over his argument with Daedalus. (This ongoing dispute between father and son had strained their relationship over the past year.) Icarus was proud of his father’s fame as an Athenian artisan. There had been a time when he seemed destined to become a great artisan like his father. That was before the old sage had revealed the prophecy to Icarus that consumed his every waking moment. How could he think about becoming a craftsman when he had

Daedalus had been commissioned by King Minos to build an impossible maze to imprison the mighty Minotaur. However, Daedalus and Icarus were sentenced to the impossible-to-crack maze, after Daedalus had fallen out of favor with the King. Icarus knew the maze like the back of his hand - he had helped his father build it, afterall. The labyrinth was a series of intricate dark corridors, endlessly meandering, which kept the Minotaur at its center. The beast still lay there, a pile of dust. One year ago, the beast had been slain by Theseus. With the help of Daedalus, Theseus had traversed the maze and killed the beast. For this crime against the kingdom, Minos had imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus. Today they would be free, and Icarus would finally fulfill his destiny. The boy rounded the final corner; he was just outside Daedalus’s workshop. He knew that it was noon, because the walls of the maze cast shallow shadows during this time. For a brief moment Icarus admired the sun and the warmth it extended over his body. He was mesmerized by its beauty. Soon he would be flying close enough to touch it.
“Ah, son,” Daedalus said. “Did you find enough