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- I Am That I Am
- Iambic
- Iambic hexameter
- Iambic Pentameter
- Iambic Tetrameter
- Iambs
- Icaria
- Icarian Sea
- Icarus
- Icon
- Iconic
- Iconoclast
- Iconoclastic
- Iconography
- Ida, Mount
- Ideal Form
- Idealism
- Ideology
- Idiolect
- Idiom
- Idiomatic
- Idol
- Idolatry
- Idyll
- If thy right eye offend thee
- Ignatian
- Ignatius
- ignis-fatus
- Iliad
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- Image
- Imagery
- Imagination
- Imaginative truth
- Imagist
- Immaculate Conception
- Immanent
- Immanuel Kant
- Immortal
- Immortality
- Imperative
- Imperative verb
- Improvisation theatre
- Impute
- In extremis
- Incantation
- Incantatory
- Incarnate
A-Z: General definitions: Icarus
Definition
Daedalus constructed the Labyrinth for King Minos. Later Minos accused him of providing the thread which Ariadne then gave to Theseus so that he could kill the Minotaur and escape from the Labyrinth. Minos accordingly refused to allow Daedalus and his son Icarus to leave Crete. Undeterred Daedalus fashioned wings for himself and his son. The island of Icaria and the Icarian Sea to the south of it bear witness to how far the pair succeeded in flying before disaster overcame Icarus who, ignoring his father's instructions, flew too close to the sun. The wax of his wings melted and he plunged to his death.
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A great engineer and craftsman who constructed the Labyrinth under Knossos and conquered flight.
The legendary home of the Minotaur, possibly a folk memory of the ruins of the labyrinthine palace of Knossos.
King of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa, brother of Rhadamanthys and Sarpedon.
Monster with a bull's head and a man's body, the offspring of the union between Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a bull.
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