Ikaria Sea - Red sea

…But Icarus, disobeying his father's orders and flying too high, caused the wax that held his wings together to melt in the heat of the sun, and he fell to his death in the sea off the coast of Asia Minor in the southern Aegean Sea. Since then, this sea has come to be called the Icarian Sea. This story is well known from the Metamorphoses by the Latin poet Ovid, and a modern masterpiece inspired by this account is Bruegel's The Fall of Icarus. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Ikaria Sea" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…しかしイカロスは父の命にそむいて高空を飛翔（ひしよう）したため翼を固めた蠟が太陽の熱に溶け，エーゲ海南部，小アジア沿岸付近の海に落ちて死んだ。以後この海はイカリア海と呼ばれるようになったという。この話はラテン詩人オウィディウスの《転身物語》でよく知られ，その記述に想を得た近代の名画にブリューゲルの《イカロスの墜落》がある。…

※「イカリア海」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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