The Fall of Icarus

Can't get past two stars on this for a couple of reasons...
The Fall of Icarus... honestly Daedalus (Icarus' father) first appears on page 11, Icarus on page 12, and he falls on page 14. He was a bit part at best, so very strange to name this book as it is.
Secondly, confusion. I know this is an excerpt from a much larger book, but for me those Penguin 80's and the 60s which are excerpts are at there best when they are well selected so that the excerpt makes sense in isolation - where there is a story that has a beginning and a resolution, where the characters can stand alone. This book brought in character after character cold. I had no idea how they fit together, who they were, what their intent was. It read as a sequence of stories all run together.
I am sure the full Metamorphoses would read better.