Daedalus was a very talented and famous architect and sculptor of ancient Greece.

Despite his great ability in this field committed a murder out of envy. He killed his nephew

and pupil Talus when he realized that his ability and talent  were about to surpass his own.

Then he fled to Crete  where he came under the protection of king Minos. After he had built

the famous palaces and the Labyrinth of King Minos, he lived there with great honour.

Meanwhile he married the beautiful  slave Naukratis with whom he had a son, Ikaros. King

Minos, though  very satisfied with Daedalus work, was terrified with the idea that he could

leave Crete and built elsewere, palaces of equal or even greater glory, and forbade Deadalus

to leave Crete.

  Being such a good inventor, Daedalus designed a devise of wings glued with wax, that

enabled him to fly. So he escaped from Crete with his son Ikaros using this pioneering

invention. Ikaros due to his enthusiasm of the great experience of flight, ignored his fathers

advice not to fly too near the sun in order to avoid  the wings wax melting, but Ikaros did not

heed his father’s warning. As a result, Daedalus fears were realised, and Ikaros  fell into the

North Aegean sea and drowned. Daedalus buried his son on the nearby Greek island  of

Dolichi, which since that time bears the name Ikaria.

Greece is your Destination.

THE MYTH OF IKARUS & DEDALUS