# Icarus — Metamorphoses character guide

> Icarus in Metamorphoses by Ovid.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** young Icarus

**First appearance:** 0088-death-of-nessus-the-centaur

## Snapshot

The boy who flies on borrowed feathers, ignoring his father's warning until the sun melts the wax and the sea closes over his name.

## Who they are

Icarus is Daedalus's young son, lifted into the sky on wings his father built from wax and feathers, thrilled by the impossible freedom of flight. His father warns him to keep a middle course, neither too near the sun nor too low to the waves, but the boy's delight overrides caution. His fall is the story's sharpest image of youthful excess, turning a moment of wonder into an eternal warning.

## In the story

### [Story of Daedalus and Icarus](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/metamorphoses_se/chapters/story-of-daedalus-and-icarus)

Daedalus's son who ignores his father's warnings, flies too high, and falls into the sea when the sun melts his wax wings.

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