The Fall of Icarus
Ovid
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Enduring myths of vengeful gods and tragically flawed mortals from ancient Rome’s great poet. Ovid tells the tales of Theseus and the Minotaur, Daedalus and Icarus, the Calydonian Boar-Hunt, and many other famous myths.
(Taken from Books VIII and IX of Mary M. Innes’s translation of Metamorphoses.)
[ Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) 43 BC–17 AD ]
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