A character from Greek mythology whose name has become a symbol for someone who becomes overly ambitious and is ruined by their own pride.
From Greek mythology, where Icarus was the son of Daedalus who ignored warnings and flew too close to the sun on wax wings, causing him to fall to his death. The name now carries metaphorical meaning.
The story of Icarus is one of history's oldest warnings about hubris, and it's remarkable how a 2,000-year-old myth still shapes how we think about ambition—we still call ambitious people who fail 'the new Icarus' in news headlines.
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