Because his father Daedalus had taught Princess Ariadne how to get out of the maze of Minos, Ariadne helped theseus (theseus was the son of the king of Athens, and decided to enter the maze to kill Minotaur in order to stop the Athenians from being sacrificed in the maze of Minos) and fled with theseus. The king was very angry, so he put Daedalus and Icarus in the maze and blocked the exit. One day they found many feathers scattered on the ground, so they glued them together with beeswax to make wings. After the wings were made successfully, the two of them flew out. As a result, Icarus was fascinated and flew near the sun. The high temperature melted the beeswax, so Icarus fell into the sea and died.