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Idomeneus
/ aɪˈdɒmɪˌnjuːs /
noun
- Greek myth a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War
Example Sentences
Everyone pressed me, pressed King Idomeneus to take command of ships for Ilion.
Idomeneus brought his company back to Krete; the sea took not a man from him, of all who lived through the long war.
My master he had seen in Krete, he said, lodged with Idomeneus, while the long ships, leaky from gales, were laid up for repairs.
Whether such unseemly deaths ever befell Idomeneus, a Greek general who returns home to his native Crete from the Trojan War, or his unlucky kin is moot.
That’s because in “Idomeneus,” the German dramatist Roland Schimmelpfennig’s inventive deconstruction of a Greek myth, ink is spilled whenever its characters bite the Aegean dust.
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