Ovid’s “The Story of Daedalus and Icarus” and Aristotle’s “On Happiness,” each devise and apply the Aristotelian mean to maintain the concept that one must keep a balance between two excesses in life so that humanity can avoid ultimate disaster, because Aristotle says we are a product of our parents, and if they fail, we will most likely follow in their footsteps. In Aristotle’s “On Happiness,” Aristotle analyzes the Aristotelian mean and about how we must keep a balance between two extremes in our life. In “The Story Daedalus and Icarus,” Daedalus tells Icarus to fly in the middle, not too low or too high, obviously a reference to the Aristotelian mean.
In Ovid’s “The Story of Daedalus,” Daedalus telling Icarus to fly in