Icarus was the craftsman’s son who escaped Crete with wings in Greek mythology. His father, Daedalus, built the Labyrinth for King Minos and later devised the escape device.
Daedalus fastened feathers together with wax and fashioned wings for himself and Icarus. He warned his son not to fly too close to the Sun or too near the sea. Icarus became exhilarated and flew upward; the heat softened the wax, causing the wings to fail. He fell into the sea and drowned.
The escape is connected to the Minotaur story through Daedalus’s imprisonment in Crete. Different ancient and later accounts vary about why Daedalus and Icarus were confined, but the famous warning and fall became the standard version. Icarus is therefore linked to the Labyrinth indirectly, not as its builder or a participant in Theseus’s expedition.