Icarus was simply overcome with the joy of flying, and ignored his father’s warnings. He flew too high, the wax melted, and he fell. “
Yes, thanks – I remember that now. But wasn’t Icarus trying to fly higher and higher (as he was excited by the feelign of freedom when soaring) to be near the “gods?” It’s a long time since I read mythology, but my memory bank seemed to reflect that idea somehow. I must be mixing up two different ideas.
There was a greek mythic girl Arachnae (turned into a spider), who also was competing with the gods, and her punishment was to forever do what she was good at, spinning (webs).