Icarus/Daedalus
Icarus was the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the architect of the labyrinth of Crete. After Theseus, king of Athens and enemy of Minos, escaped from the labyrinth, King Minos suspected that Icarus and Daedalus had revealed the labyrinth's secrets and imprisoned them—either in a large tower overlooking the ocean or the labyrinth itself, depending upon the account. Icarus and Daedalus escaped using wings Daedalus constructed from feathers, threads from blankets, clothes, and beeswax. Daedalus warned Icarus first of complacency and then of hubris, instructing him to fly neither too low nor too high, lest the sea's dampness clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them. Icarus ignored Daedalus's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, causing the beeswax in his wings to melt. Icarus fell from the sky, plunged into the sea, and drowned. The myth gave rise to the idiom, "fly too close to the sun." In some versions of the tale, Daedalus and Icarus escape by ship.
Icarus/Daedalus Stamp Collection
Greece 1935 Daedalus and Icarus building the wings constructed from feathers, threads from blankets, clothes, and beeswax
Surinam 1978 Daedalus and Icarus building the wings
Greece 1978 Daedalus and Icarus building the wings
Belgium 1944 Daedalus instructing Icarus to fly neither too low nor too high. It's a Baroque oil on canvas painting created by Anthony van Dyck from 1615 to 1625. It lives at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Canada.
Gabon 1984 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Gabon 1984 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Ghana 2004 Daedalus ties the wings to Icarus by Charles Lebrun (1619-1690, Hermitae Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, celebrating 300 years of St. Petersbutg
Yemen, Arab Republic 1971 Daedalus and Icarus with rocket ship in the project conquest of Mars
Uruguay 1985 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Switzerland 1981 The symbol of Icarus for "Pro Aero" 50 Year Swissair
Anguilla 1984 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Turkey 1984 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Since its fortieth anniversary, the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) had decided to use the ending date of the Chicago Conference, i.e., 7 December 1944, to calculate its anniversaries. In the following correspondence sent to all ICAO Contracting States , the ICAO Secretary General, Yves Lambert, suggested to the Civil Aviation Authorities to consider the issuance of postage stamps to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the signing in Chicago of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
The picture of Icarus, used on the stamp project was adapted from the spectacular mural entitled Man in Flight, commissioned by Switzerland from Hans Erni (1909-2015).
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Tanzania 1984 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
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Yemen, Arab Republic 1985 The symbol of Icarus for 40 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Greece 1991 Icarus flying for Europa (C.E.P.T.) 1991 - Europe in Space with the first satellite "sputnik"
Aitutaki 1975 Daedalus with Space Capsule in the series of Apollo-Soyuz Space Project
Nicaragua 1978 Icarus flying for 75th Anniversary First Powered Flight by the Wright Brothers
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Canada 1935 Daedalus flying over the strait of Georgia between Vancouver and the mainland
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Belgium 1946 Icarus and Aircraft
Hungary 1940 Icarus in Horthy aviation funds
Ecuador 1938 Icarus in National Progress Exhibition - Inscribed "1830 - 1937" for Post-transport
Hungary 1924 Icarus flying above Budapest
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Switzerland 1924 Icarus flying in airmail stamps
Switzerland 1924 Icarus flying in the series of airmail
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Latvia 1932 Icarus flying in the series of AIR - CHARITY - Pioneers of Aviation
Gabon 1970 Icarus falling In the series of conquest of space
Greece 1933 Icarus in airmail stamps for the lines of Aeroespresso Italiana
Maldives 1974 Icarus flying to the sun in Space explorations of US and USSR
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Liechtenstein 1948 Icarus in the series of Airplane pioniers
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Brazil 1959 Icarus Monument In honour of Alberto Santos-Dumont on the Avenue de Longchamp, in Saint-Cloud, erected in 1913 ,there is a bronze statue commissioned by the Airclub of France, for the Week of the Wing
Venezuela 1937 Icarus and Globe with Venezuela
Hungary 1968 Icarus falling In Memoriam - Cosmonauts Killed in Accidents
Hungary 1962 Icarus in front of an airplane with the emblem of the aeroclub of Hungary
Chile 2005 Icarus in 75 Years Aviation Subsecretary
Brazil 1947 Reproduction of the painting "Awakening of Icarus" by Lucílio de Albuquerque (1877-1939), collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts of Rio de Janeiro/RJ.
Philippines 2009 The symbol of Icarus for 65 years of International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Brazil 1934 Icarus Monument In honour of Alberto Santos-Dumont on the Avenue de Longchamp, in Saint-Cloud, erected in 1913 ,there is a bronze statue commissioned by the Airclub of France, for the National Aeronautic Congress
Argentina 1947 Icarus Falling in the series Aviation Week
Mexico 1944 Probably (?) Icarus flying in Man In flight
Ras al Khaima 1972 Icarus falling In the series of skylab program
Lybia 1978 Icarus falling 75th Anniversary of First Powered Flight
Antigua & Barbuda 1987 Icarus falling In Birth Centenary of Marc Chagall
Hungary 1978 Icarus falling with Wilbur and Orville Wright at the series of History of Pilots
Rwanda 1969 Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Pieter Brueghel Older
Rwanda 1969 In the stamp you can't see Icarus. Only in the painting he is in the water on the right
parallel to other mythologies
Thailand 1925 Geruda which is a Hindu deity and is described as the king of the birds and a kite-like figure. He is shown either in a zoomorphic form (a giant bird with partially open wings) or an anthropomorphic form (a man with wings and some ornithic features).
Kiribati 1983 Obaia, feathered Legend from the Oceania mythology
Another Icarus in Greek Mythology
IKARIOS (Icarius) was an Athenian man who was instructed in the art of winemaking by the god Dionysos when he first arrived in the country. Ikarios shared the gift with his countrymen, but was stoned to death by a group of drunken shepherds who thought they had been poisoned.
Cyprus 1983 Icarius and the discovery of wine (mosaic), Paphos