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The Fall of Icarus

by Ovid

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This short classical selection centres on the mythic fall of Icarus and related ancient stories of ambition, flight and divine or natural limits. It belongs to the Greek and Roman mythological tradition in which transformation, warning and spectacle turn individual desire into lasting cultural memory.

Historical Periods

Ancient Greecec. 1100–146 BCE Greek Mythology and Heroic LegendMythic and archaic tradition Augustan Poetry and Roman Mythmaking40 BCE–17 CE

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Classical Literature Mythological Fiction

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Ovid44 BCE–17 Icarus

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