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Title
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El calor del Sol derrite la cera que pegaba las alas de Icaro, y cae al mar
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Description
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After creating the labyrinth to contain the Minotaur, Daedalus was taken prisoner by King Minos. He came up with a way to escape that did not involve traveling by land or sea to avoid being recaptured. He gathered up feathers and created human sized wings and fastened them together with string and beeswax. He made a pair of wings for himself and a pair for his son, Icarus. Before taking flight, Daedalus instructed his son not to fly too close to the water or the moisture will ruin the wings, and not too close to the sun as the heat would melt the wax. As depicted in the engraving, Icarus did not listen to his father and flew too close to the sun. The wax melted, and Icarus fell into the sea.
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Image Creator
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D. José Assensio (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:25023
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Source Name
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Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
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Image
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Subject
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Icarus
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Daedalus
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Mythology
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