Advertisement

Advertisement

Idomeneus

/ aɪˈdɒmɪˌnjuːs /

noun

  1. Greek myth a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

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.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


idolumidoneous