A Man Was Going Down the Road complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high, so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, whereupon the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. This tragic theme of failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon. Daedalus - he was a skillful craftsman and artist. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix and possibly also the father of Iapyx although this
House of Wax (2005 film) the film has a weighted average score of 41 out of 100 based on 36 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale. "Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, ""House of Wax" is not a good movie, but it is an efficient one and will deliver most of what anyone attending "House of Wax" could reasonably expect...assuming it would be unreasonable to expect very much." He said of Hilton's performance that "she is no