Left wing of Icarus. In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of Daedalus and a slave of Minos, king of Crete, called Naucrate. Daedalus had taught Ariadne how Theseus could get out of the maze he himself had built. When Theseus had killed the Minotaur, Minos, irritated, locked Daedalus and his son Icarus in the labyrinth. In order to be able to escape of that place, his father made wings for both with feathers and held with wax. Before fleeing, the father said to him, "Icarus, my son, stay at a medium height. If you fly very low, the moisture will clog your wings, and if you do it very high, the heat will melt the wax. If not nothing separates you from me. " But Icarus, full of pride, did not listen to his father's advice and began to fly up to reach the sky and the proximity of the sun's rays melted the wax that held the feathers together and made Icarus he would fall into the water while calling on his father and sink into the sea. Eventually the father found the remains of the wings and cursed his inventions. He buried his son's body and named that land Icaria (and the sea where the Sea of ​​Icaria fell) in his memory. Daedalus came to Sicily, dedicated a temple to Apollo, and offered his wings to the god as an offering.