who is icarus
Jacob Peter Gowy's The Flight of Icarus. In Greek mythology, Icarus (the Latin spelling, conventionally adopted in English; Ancient Greek: á¼´ÎºÎ±ÏÎ¿Ï, Ãkaros, Etruscan: Vikare) is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth.