“The Lament for Icarus” by Herbert James Draper (1898). Source: Public Domain.

World Mythology Warnings for TODAY #2: Icarus’s Flight & Dangerous Ambitions

Welcome back to our series World Mythology Warnings for Today. In case you missed our previous (and first) episode, be sure you click here to explore what happened in Persia. In today’s second episode, we’ll revisit Ancient Greece as we present a tale that has been told across generations: Icarus’s Flight. This particular legend captures

Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi was said to have flown over the Bosphorus like another Icarus (George Tsiagalakis / CC BY-SA 4.0)

Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi, the Man who Flew Over the Bosphorus

Almost everyone has heard of Leonardo da Vinci, who is rightly held up as one of the greatest minds in history. Supremely skilled as a painter, inventor, scientist and polymath, his fizzing genius casts a shadow over history few can hope to rival. Most will also know of Daedalus, the ancient Greek analogue of da