Everyone has heard about the fall of Icarus, right? The poster boy for adolescent heedlessness? But what do we really know about the young man beyond his fall?

This episode of Icarus, son of Daedalus explores the backstory by covering the difficult youth of Icarus on the island Crete, where his father Daedalus is a virtual prisoner of the powerful King Minos, and his close and fraught relationships, respectively, with his mother, Naukrate, the former concubine of King Minos, and of course his father Daedalus, the creator of the labyrinth and inventor extraordinaire. Not to mention the unstable (at this time) Queen Pasiphae and her obsession and quote unquote relations with Poseidon's bull from the sea. 

What led to Icarus's foolishness? Was it all his doing? Was it inevitable that he tune out his father? Should Daedalus shoulder some of the blame? His mother Naukrate? King Minos and his court? Nature versus nurture? Tune in to learn more about this complex character beyond the archetype for teen rebellion.   

Subsequent episodes will of course speak to the father and son's imprisonment in the tower on Crete, the invention and assembly of the famous wings for escape and of course, the infamous fall, but also the continuation of Daedalus’s flight from Minos to Sicily after the loss of his dear son, Icarus.