Because flying too high would allow the sun's heat to melt the wax that held the wings together, causing the wings to fall apart, and Icarus to then fall to his death. Which is what happens in the story.
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Apollo's son told his dad if he could ride the chariot across the sun.Apollo could not say "no" because he agreed to something before that he would say "yes" to anything or something like that,and so he let him go and his son got too close and died.
You probably mean Daedalus, the inventor, and his son, Icarus? Daedalus was the one who invented king Minos's maze, and was then locked into it so he couldn't tell anyone how to solve it. He then invented wings for him and his son to escape.
I asked this question and none of you knew so i figured it out so i thought i'd tell you. The country is Mexico. The city is Tenoctitlan. There you go hope that helped!
Older civilizations tended to be far more relaxed about time than we are, and "days" were pretty much the smallest denomination they cared about. When higher resolution was needed the height of the sun was usually sufficient.
Zeus did not tell stories, he was in them.