0593NOTIcarusDaedalus

0593NOTIcarusDaedalus_Bastille

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Ovid Met. 8.155-262
Apollodorus Libr. Epit. 1.12-14

Bastille, "Icarus", pop song 2013
http://youtu.be/FehA9OwZflw

"Icarus is flying too close to the sun. ... Icarus' life has only just begun." The lyrics express the danger of Icarus's high-flying exuberance; but they seem not to acknowledge Daedalus' opposite advice, i.e. that the son not fly too near the waves "lest the damp destroy the wings as well." See Apollodorus and Ovid (links left) for Daedalus' injunction.

Thanks to Shelby Ravsten for this reference.

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