Landscape with the Fall of Icarus using feathers secured with bees wax. Ignoring his father's warnings, Icarus chose to fly too close to the sun, melting the wax, and fell into the sea and drowned. His legs can be seen in the water just below the ship. The sun, already half-set on the horizon, is a long way away; the flight did not reach anywhere near it. Daedalus does not appear in this version of the painting, though he does, still flying, in the van Buuren one (see below). The ploughman, shepherd and angler are mentioned in Ovid's account of the legend; they are: "astonished and
How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When He Was a Little Boy How Obelix Fell into the Magic Potion When he was a Little Boy (, "How Obelix Fell into the Druid's Cooking Pot When He Was Small") is an Asterix story written by René Goscinny and originally published in the French magazine" Pilote "issue 291 (1965), with only a few drawings. In 1989, it was fully illustrated by Albert Uderzo and published in an album as a text story with illustrations. The story is narrated by Asterix, apparently to the conventional readership, and tells that in childhood, Obelix