Daedalus was one of the greatest craftsmen in ancient Athens who built the labyrinth for King Minos of Crete. He then gave Ariadne the ball of string which she gave to Theseus that helped him defeat the Minotaur. King Minos of Crete imprisoned Daedalus and then

Daedalus made some wings out of wax and feathers and that was how he and his son Icarus were going to escape on these wings. He kept saying to his son fly the middle course between the spray of the sea and the heat of the sun fly the middle course and Icarus didn't listen to his dad and he flew too high and the sun melted the wax of his wings and he fell into the sea and died. The middle way between the sea and the sun was beauty and Socrates said something similar.