University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant.Greek text available from the same website. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press London, William Heinemann Ltd. Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S.Achterberg, Winfried Best, Jan Enzler, Kees Rietveld, Lia Woudhuizen, Fred, The Phaistos Disc: A Luwian Letter to Nestor, Publications of the Henry Frankfort Foundation vol XIII, Dutch Archeological and Historical Society, Amsterdam 2004.174, Marcus Terentius Varro, printed by Christophorus Raphelengius, 1601. Sir James George Frazer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921), Vol. "Idomeneus" cf., however, Apollodorus, The Library, ed. ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories Prologue 587.Robert Palfrey Utter, 1918, Every-day pronunciation, p 127 A key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and scripture proper names. ^ Walker, John Trollope, William (1830).In this version, Poseidon (Neptune in the opera) spares Idomeneo's son Idamante, on condition that Idomeneo relinquish his throne to the new generation. Idomeneo, a 1781 opera seria by Mozart, is based on the story of Idomeneus's return to Crete. The tale is also covered by the fourth-century Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus, and the French 17th century writer François Fénelon. Īlternatively, Idomeneus was driven out of Crete by Leucus, his foster son, who had seduced and then killed Idomeneus' wife Meda and usurped the throne of Crete. According to Marcus Terrentius Varro, the gens Salentini descended from Idomeneus, who had sailed from Crete to Illyria, and then together with Illyrians and Locrians from Illyria to Salento, see Grecìa Salentina. The Cretans sent him into exile in Calabria (ancient name of the Salento in Apulia), Italy and then Colophon in Asia Minor where he died. The gods were angry at Idomeneus’s murder of his own son and sent a plague to Crete. The first living thing was his son, whom Idomeneus duly sacrificed. He promised Poseidon that he would sacrifice the first living thing he saw when he returned home if Poseidon would save his ship and crew. Italian and German title pages of the original libretto of Mozart's opera, IdomeneoĪ later tradition, preserved by the mythographer Apollodorus, continues the story as follows: after the war, Idomeneus's ship hit a terrible storm. Idomeneus killed twenty men and at least three Amazon women, including Bremusa, at Troy. He was one of the Achaeans to enter the Trojan Horse. Like most of the other leaders of the Greeks, he is alive and well as the story comes to a close. He was one of the primary defenders when most of the other Achaean heroes were injured, and even fought Hector briefly and repulsed his attack. Idomeneus was one of Agamemnon's trusted advisors. In Homer's Iliad, Idomeneus is found among the first rank of the Greek generals, leading his troops and engaging the enemy head-on, and escaping serious injury. He was husband of Meda by whom she became the mother of Orsilochus, Cleisithyra, Iphiclus and Lycus. Idomeneus was the son of Deucalion and Cleopatra, grandson of King Minos and king of Crete and Queen Pasiphaë, thus tracing his line from Helios the sun god. Idomeneus was described by the chronicler Malalas in his account of the Chronography as "above average height, dark-skinned, good eyes, well set, strong, good nose, thick beard, good head, curly hair, a berserker when fighting". Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms. He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well as a comrade of the Telamonian Ajax. In Greek mythology, Idomeneus ( / aɪ ˈ d ɒ m ɪ n i ə s/ Greek: Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. Orsilochus, Cleisithyra, Iphiclus and Lycus Idomeneus coming back, Palais Niel, France
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