Icarus Flew Too Close to the Sun. His Father Watched Him Fall | Greek Mythology Animated

Daedalus was the most cunning craftsman in the Greek world, the man who built the labyrinth of Crete to hold the Minotaur, and the man King Minos then locked in a tower for helping an enemy escape it. With every road and ship out of Crete sealed, Daedalus looked to the one thing no king had ever thought to guard: the open sky. He built two pairs of wings from feathers and wax, and gave his son Icarus one instruction before they flew, an instruction the boy could not quite bring himself to keep. This is the full myth of Daedalus and Icarus: the labyrinth, Ariadne's thread, the tower, the wings, the warning, the joy of flight, and the fall that gave an island its name. Sources: Apollodorus, Library 3.1.4 and Epitome 1.12-1.13; Ovid, Metamorphoses Book VIII. 0:00 The first feather 0:21 The master craftsman 0:40 A prison for the Minotaur 0:55 The labyrinth rises 1:31 The craftsman's hint 2:06 Into the dark, unspooling 2:54 The king's fury 3:28 The tower over the sea 4:24 Wings tested indoors 5:07 The leap 5:55 Toward the sun 6:56 Icaria, and the wings hung up Epic Myths Animated retells the great myths of the world as animated films. New myth every week. Watch the full series on the Epic Myths Animated playlist. All episodes are original productions made with AI-assisted animation. #GreekMythology #Icarus #Daedalus #Minotaur #Labyrinth #Mythology #AnimatedStory