Daedalus and Icarus

When I was in high school, around 15 years old, me and my mates went to a walking civic tour by Santiago. We started in Parque Forestal and finished in Palacio de la Moneda. In the middle, we visited the Museo de Bellas Artes and a statue in the entrance called my attention, it was a statue about Daedalus and Icarus. So I decided to find out more about this Greek myth and the story says that Daedalus and Icarus were prisoners in a maze by The King of Crete, Minos. Afterwards, Daedalus and Icarus could scape from the maze created by Daedalus. However, they couldn’t leave the island because the king watched over the earth and the sea. Therefore, Daedalus decided to make a pair of wings manufactured with wax and feathers. Later, Daedalus told Icarus that he shouldn’t fly so high, because the heat of the sun would melt the wax. Icarus forgot this warning and flew high and high until his wings melted off. Icarus fell into the sea and died. Daedalus cried for his child and in his memory named Icaria the land near the place where Icarus passed away.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daedalus