Icarus did not heed his father's advice, and he flew upwards so near to the sun that the wax melted that attached his wings to his shoulders, and he fell into the sea. This sea was thereafter called the Sea of Icarus, which surrounds the island of Samos. His body was washed ashore on the island of Icaria where he was buried by Heracles. On one of the Amber Islands, Daedalus erected two pillars, one for Icarus, and one for himself, and on the carved doors of the temple of Cumae, he portrayed the sad fate of his son.