what happened to icarus

In Greek mythology, Icarus was the son of Daedalus, an accomplished inventor, who produced an ingenious set of wings made of feathers and wax to escape from the island of Crete. Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too close to the sun or the wax would melt, but Icarus was drunk with his newfound power and ignored his fathers warning. As a result, the wax melted, and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. Daedalus wept for his son and called the nearest land Icaria in memory of him. Today, the supposed site of his burial on the island bears his name, and the sea near Icaria in which he drowned is called the Icarian Sea.