Icarus to the heat melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea and drowned in the area which today bears his name, the Icarian Sea near Icaria, an island southwest of Samos. Hellenistic writers give euhemerising variants in which the escape from Crete was actually by boat, provided by Pasiphaë, for which Daedalus invented the first sails, to outstrip Minos' pursuing galleys, and that Icarus fell overboard en route to Sicily and drowned. Heracles erected a
She Ventures and He Wins almost as much intrigue as the play itself. The name "Ariadne" is pseudonym modeled after the Greek goddess. Ariadne, the Greek goddess, is the daughter of King Minos of Crete and the wife of Dionysus. While already married to Dionysus, Ariadne fell in love with Theseus who help her by promising to take her to Athens as his wife. She gave him two special gifts, a sword and a clue of thread, to find a way back from the Cnossian Labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. She give Theseus the information that he needs to defeat the Minotaur. Ariadne is seen