The Fall of Icarus (1943), by Henri Matisse By signing ... An Athenian, Daedalus longed for home but was forbidden to leave Crete, so, Ovid said, “to new arts his cunning thought applies ...

The Fall of Icarus, the ultimate cautionary tale of hubris and nemesis, is one of the most well-known from ancient Greek mythology and most famously told in the works of the Roman poet Ovid.