Ikaros (English spelling)

Japanese: イカロス - いかろす(英語表記)Ikaros
Ikaros (English spelling)

In Greek mythology, Daedalus is the son of the craftsman Daedalus and Naucrate, a female slave of King Minos of Crete. Daedalus taught Ariadne how to rescue the hero Theseus from the labyrinth. When King Minos found out that Theseus had defeated the monster Minotaur, he was angry and imprisoned Daedalus and Icarus in the labyrinth. However, Daedalus invented wings and attached them to his and his son's shoulders with wax, and they succeeded in escaping from the labyrinth. However, his son Icarus flew too high, forgetting his father's warning not to fly too high, so the heat of the sun melted the wax on his wings, and he fell into the sea and drowned. The sea he fell into later became the Icarus Sea.

[Masahiro Ogawa]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

ギリシア神話の工匠ダイダロスと、クレタ王ミノスの女奴隷ナウクラテの間に生まれた子。ダイダロスは、アリアドネに、迷宮ラビリントスから英雄テセウスを救い出す方法を教えた。そのためテセウスが怪物ミノタウロスを退治したことを知って怒ったミノス王は、ダイダロスとイカロス父子を迷宮ラビリントスに閉じ込めた。しかし、ダイダロスは翼を考案してそれを自分と息子の肩に蝋(ろう)で固定し、迷宮からの脱出に成功した。ところが息子イカロスは、天高く飛んではならないという父親の忠告を忘れて得意になって高く飛翔(ひしょう)したため、太陽の熱で翼の蝋が溶け、海中に落下して溺(おぼ)れ死んだ。彼の落ちた海はその後イカロス海となった。

[小川正広]

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