Daedalus and Icarus Resources
Movie or TV Productions
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"Daedalus" is the name of a 2005 episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. The plot focuses on an inventor named Dr. Emory Emerson who visits the spaceship. Sounds about right.
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The Daedalus and Icarus myth was dramatized by Jim Henson's The Storyteller: Greek Myths series. It's not The Muppets, but we'll take what we can get.
Videogames
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The Daedalus Encounter was a video game and "interactive movie" from 1995. It was set in outer space, and featured a space ship named Daedalus. What is it with this guy and outer space?
Videos
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Check out this pretty fantastic stop-motion Lego version of the myth. We dare you to top this.
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Someone accepted our dare. Here's another cool stop-motion video of the myth, this time using paper cutouts.
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And here's a slightly darker, more depressing adaptation of the myth. Watch at your own risk.
Audio
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The (awesome) song "Carry On My Wayward Son" by the 70s band Kansas draws on this high-flying myth. Here's a sample lyric for you: "I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high."
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The English folk band Death in June (yikes) penned a song about the myth. It's sad and folksy—what a combo.
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Contemporary artists such as U2, Bon Iver, Ani DiFranco, and Regina Spektor have all mentioned Icarus or his "wings of wax" in various songs. Way to be super-famous, Icarus.
Books
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If you're up for some serious reading, check out James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Both books feature a character named Stephen Dedalus, a young writer whose name pays homage to Daedalus, the ultimate artist and craftsman.
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Sci-fi fans rejoice! A two-part Star Trek series called Daedalus exists: it's about Starfleet's first warp 5 vessel (named Daedalus).
Images & Artwork (Copyrighted and Unsure)
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The sculptor Simon Benetton crafted large metal wings called Ikarus 1993. They sit outside the Bonn Opera in Germany. And they're awesome.
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American artist Roger Brown created a mural of Daedalus and Icarus over an entrance to a skyscraper at 120 North LaSalle in Chicago. What do you think of this modern take?
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In 1947, the French artist Henri Matisse included this playful rendition of Icarus falling in his book "Jazz." Pretty cool, right?
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This ancient fresco from a wall in Pompeii depicts the fall of Icarus. This story has been around forever.