Icaria
Proper noun
Meaning
Icaria
Alternative form of Ikaria
Examples
Cultural impact Étienne Cabet 's work Travels in Icaria caused a group of followers to leave France in 1848 and travel to the United States to found a series of utopian settlements in Texas, Illinois, Iowa, California, and elsewhere.
Definition and history One of the first actors is believed to be an ancient Greek called Thespis of Icaria.
Events * 534 BC Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
His father cried, bitterly lamenting his own arts, and called the land near the place where Icarus fell into the ocean Icaria in memory of his child.
When Bœotus and Aeolus were born, they were raised by Metapontus; but their stepmother (Autolyte, wife of Metapontus) quarrelled with their mother Arne, prompting Bœotus and Aeolus to kill Autolyte and flee from Icaria.