The Fall of Icarus: the ingenious wing

The great engineer and artisan, the Athenian Daedalus, made wings for Daedalus, his son, so that both could escape from the Island of Crete. The wings were ingeniously constructed with feathers and wax and possibly more materials. Warning his son not to fly upwards past the moon and near the sun, because the wax would melt, Daedalus set forth, but the joy of flying made him forget his father's warning. He did go ever higher and caused his own death. A catastrophe. He plummeted to earth. No one is certain whether it was in the ocean's waves or on earth. All that remains is the wing that Deadalus wrought.