The line is from the tale of the young Icarus and his father Daedalus, who built the Minotaur's Labyrinth. They are both imprisoned in a tower, and unable to escape by ship, Daedalus makes wings of feathers and wax for him and his son.
When they make their escape, Daedalus tells his son that they must not fly too close to the sun lest the wings melt, and not to close to the ocean or the wings would dampen and he would fall into the water.
However, the youthful and arrogant Icarus flies too close to the heavens, melting his wings and crashing into the waves, drowning. Daedalus, struck with terrible grief, buries him, naming the land Icaria (a real island, FYI).
The line is from the tale of the young Icarus and his father Daedalus, who built the Minotaur's Labyrinth. They are both imprisoned in a tower, and unable to escape by ship, Daedalus makes wings of feathers and wax for him and his son.
When they make their escape, Daedalus tells his son that they must not fly too close to the sun lest the wings melt, and not to close to the ocean or the wings would dampen and he would fall into the water.
However, the youthful and arrogant Icarus flies too close to the heavens, melting his wings and crashing into the waves, drowning. Daedalus, struck with terrible grief, buries him, naming the land Icaria (a real island, FYI).