![]() He urged the boy to follow, and showed him the dangerous art of flying, moving his own wings, and then looking back at his son. He gave a never to be repeated kiss to his son, and lifting upwards on his wings, flew ahead, anxious for his companion, like a bird, leading her fledglings out of a nest above, into the empty air. ![]() While he worked and issued his warnings the ageing man’s cheeks were wet with tears: the father’s hands trembled. And I order you not to aim towards Bootes, the Herdsman, or Helice, the Great Bear, or towards the drawn sword of Orion: take the course I show you!’ At the same time as he laid down the rules of flight, he fitted the newly created wings on the boy’s shoulders. He instructed the boy as well, saying ‘Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way, in case the moisture weighs down your wings, if you fly too low, or if you go too high, the sun scorches them. When he had put the last touches to what he had begun, the artificer balanced his own body between the two wings and hovered in the moving air. His son, Icarus, stood next to him, and, not realising that he was handling things that would endanger him, caught laughingly at the down that blew in the passing breeze, and softened the yellow bees’-wax with his thumb, and, in his play, hindered his father’s marvellous work. Then he fastened them together with thread at the middle, and bees’-wax at the base, and, when he had arranged them, he flexed each one into a gentle curve, so that they imitated real bird’s wings. In that way, long ago, the rustic pan-pipes were graduated, with lengthening reeds. He laid down lines of feathers, beginning with the smallest, following the shorter with longer ones, so that you might think they had grown like that, on a slant. So saying he applied his thought to new invention and altered the natural order of things. ‘He may thwart our escape by land or sea’ he said ‘but the sky is surely open to us: we will go that way: Minos rules everything but he does not rule the heavens’. Meanwhile Daedalus, hating Crete, and his long exile, and filled with a desire to stand on his native soil, was imprisoned by the waves. Kline, sourced from University of Virginia) ![]() This means that if you aren't home when they try to deliver your parcel, Australia Post will leave it in a safe place if there is one available.įor full delivery returns information, please visit our delivery and returns pageBk VIII:183-235 Daedalus and Icarus (translated by A.S. Regional Areas (east coast) 1-3 business days*Īll orders are sent as 'Authority to Leave' by Australia Post. Please note, we can only ship to Australia and New Zealand, for international shipping, please visit *Outer-regional areas may experience slightly longer shipping times Regional Areas (east coast) 3-7 business days* Once dispatched with Australia Post, expected delivery times for each region are as follows: In busy trading periods, orders may take longer due to high volumes. Orders placed before noon AEST on business days will normally be packed and dispatched on the same day.ĭelivery times for standard shipping option delivery is 2-6 business days for most Metro and inner-regional postcodes, excluding WA. Your products are shipped from our warehouse in Victoria, Australia - or in some cases shipped from your closest store.Īs soon as your order is dispatched you will receive a tracking number that you can use to track the status of your delivery online. We offer free standard shipping on all orders over $100 orders below this value are charged at a flat rate of $7.95 for deliveries into Australia and $9.95 for Deliveries into New Zealand.Įxpress shipping is available at a flat rate of $14.95.
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