Wings

The escape is the part the tradition keeps. Ovid gives it in detail: feathers graded like a rustic pipe, bound with thread and sealed with wax, and a father's instruction to hold the middle course — not so low that the sea soaks the wings, not so high that the sun loosens them. Icarus climbed anyway. Ovid has Daedalus calling a name that no longer belongs to anybody, then burying his son on an island and cursing his own craft. The water is named after the boy, which is how the warning stays attached.