* Icarus, a song by Ralph Towner

* " Icarus ," a song by Alesana on the album On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax

* " Icarus ," a song by Flutlicht

* " Icarus ," a song by Santogold on the album Top Ranking

* " Icarus ," a song by Jason Webley on the album Only Just Beginning

* " Icarus ", a song by Enter the Haggis on Aerials ( 2001 )

* " Icarus ", a song by Madeon

* " Icarus Lives ", a song and album by Periphery

* " Flight of Icarus ", a 1983 song by Iron Maiden

The phrase was also used as a song title on the album Penance Soiree by The Icarus Line.

The bossa-nova flavored tune Icarus was written by Ralph Towner, and is arguably the Paul Winter Consort's most successful song.

Part of the song is also heard in the 1986 Nintendo Entertainment System game Kid Icarus in levels 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3.

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

To make sure no one would ever know the secret of who the Minotaur was and how to get out of the Labyrinth ( Daedalus knew both of these things ), Minos imprisoned Daedalus and his son, Icarus, along with the monster.

Sagan also visualized making Mars habitable for human life in " Planetary Engineering on Mars " ( 1973 ), an article published in the journal Icarus.

* Icarus ( film ) ( also The Killing Machine ), action film of 2010

* Icarus ( The Forms album ), 2003

* Icarus ( Chicosci album ), 2004

* Icarus ( comics ), a Marvel Comics character

* Roger Squires ( born 1932 ), crossword compiler who has used the pseudonym Icarus

* Icarus ( wrestler ) ( born 1982 ), wrestler with the Chikara organization

* Icarus ( crater ), on the Moon

* Icarus ( journal ), a planetary science journal

* Project Icarus ( Interstellar Probe Design Study ), a design study of an interstellar spacecraft based on Project Daedalus

* Icarus ( magazine ), a Trinity College student publication

* Project Icarus ( 2009 – 2014 ), unmanned interstellar probe

There are early legends of human flight such as the story of Icarus, and Jamshid in Persian myth, and later, somewhat more credible claims of short-distance human flights appear, such as the flying automaton of Archytas of Tarentum ( 428 – 347 BC ), the winged flights of Abbas Ibn Firnas ( 810 – 887 ), Eilmer of Malmesbury ( 11th century ), and the hot-air Passarola of Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão ( 1685 – 1724 ).

Ovid narrates the story of Icarus at some length in the Metamorphoses ( viii. 183 – 235 ), and refers to it elsewhere.

Miscellany ( founded in 1895 ; one of Ireland's oldest magazines ), the film journal Trinity Film Review ( TFR ) and the literary Icarus.

* Pit ( Nintendo ), a character in the Kid Icarus video game series

" A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce, the Myth of Icarus, and the Influence of Christopher Marlowe ", Estudios Irlandeses: Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies ( AEDEI ) 1 ( 2006 ), pp. 16-22.

Composers who made a name for themselves with their software include Nobuo Uematsu ( Final Fantasy ), Koji Kondo ( Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda ), Koichi Sugiyama ( Dragon Quest ), Miki Higashino ( Gradius, Yie-Ar Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ), Hiroshi Miyauchi ( Space Harrier, Hang-On, Out Run ), Rob Hubbard ( Monty On the Run, International Karate ), Hirokazu Tanaka ( Metroid, Kid Icarus, EarthBound ), Martin Galway ( Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Stryker's Run, Times of Lore ), Yuzo Koshiro ( Dragon Slayer, Ys, Shinobi, ActRaiser, Streets of Rage ), Mieko Ishikawa ( Dragon Slayer, Ys ), and Ryu Umemoto ( visual novels, shoot ' em ups ).

A 3D Classics remake of Kid Icarus was published for the Nintendo 3DS handheld console in Europe on January 5, 2012 and in Australia on January 17, 2012.

A new series entry for the Nintendo 3DS, Kid Icarus: Uprising, was eventually revealed at the E3 2010 trade show and was released in 2012.

In January 2012, the propulsion group for Project Icarus began a technology development project, known as Project Bifrost, under the auspices of Icarus Interstellar and General Propulsion Sciences, to develop an NTR propulsion system, initially aimed at interplanetary missions.

* Kid Icarus: Uprising ( 2012 ) – with Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada and Noriyuki Iwadare

In 2012, the studio worked in collaboration with Nintendo to release the three-part series " Thanatos Rising " on Nintendo Video for the upcoming video game Kid Icarus: Uprising.

* Kid Icarus: Uprising ( 2012 )-with Motoi Sakuraba, Yuzo Koshiro, Masafumi Takada, Yasunori Mitsuda

# Kid Icarus: Uprising ( 2012, Nintendo, for Nintendo 3DS )

* Kid Icarus: Uprising-Medusa's Revenge-( 2012 )-Promotional short for Kid Icarus: Uprising video game

Image: Lord Frederick Leighton FLL006. jpg | Daedalus and Icarus, by Frederick Leighton, ca 1869.

Image: PBrueghelElderIcarus. jpg | Landscape with the Fall of Icarus ( detail ) by Peter Brueghel the Elder, ca.

Icarus ' flying too close to the sun, despite his father's warning, has been interpreted by ancient authors as hubris, leading to swift retribution.

Despite its mixed critical reception, Kid Icarus is a cult classic, and had shipped 1. 76 million copies by late 2003.

The backstory of Kid Icarus is described in the instruction booklet: Before the events of the game, earth was ruled by the goddess, or Queen of light, Palutena, and the goddess, or Queen of darkness, Medusa.

Kid Icarus was designed at Nintendo's Research and Development 1 ( R & D1 ) division, while the programming was handled by the external company Intelligent Systems.

Kid Icarus had shipped 1. 76 million copies worldwide by late 2003, and has gained a cult following.

He thought that it had " aged in as timeless a manner as many other first-party Nintendo games from the NES era ", and described Kid Icarus as " one of those games that made a lot more sense back in the ' 80s, accompanied by a tips and tricks strategy sheet ".

It was developed by Nintendo in cooperation with the independent company Tose, and largely adopts the gameplay mechanics of its predecessor. Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters remained the last installment in the series for over 20 years.

In 2008, there were rumors of a three-dimensional Kid Icarus game for the Wii that was allegedly developed by the German American studio Factor 5.

He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction designed by the architect Daedalus and his son Icarus, on the command of King Minos of Crete.

A Film by Travis Wilkerson, 2003 First Run Icarus Films.

An attempt was made to adapt the trilogy in comic book form beginning in the 1980s, by " Eye N Apple Productions " headed by Icarus !- 23.

* Icarus, an album by the Paul Winter Consort