Idomeneus
mythological figure · 4 works · 24 mentions · 44 anchored passages
King Idomeneus · Idomeneus chief among the Cretans · Idomeneus leader of the Cretans · Idomeneus son of Deukalion · Mighty Idomeneus · brave Idomeneus · leader of the Cretans · noble son of Deukalion
in the texts
Iliad
An Achaean leader named by Agamemnon as a possible commander of the ship sent to Chryse.
further, let some chief man among us be in command, either Ajax, or Idomeneus, or yourself, son of Peleus, mighty warrior that you are, that we may offer sacrifice and appease the anger of the god.
All these were led by Idomeneus, and by Meriones, peer of murderous Ares.
The famous spearsman Idomeneus led the Cretans, who held Knossos, and the well-walled city of Gortys;
Odyssey
Cretan leader at Troy who returned home safely with his surviving men.
Idomeneus, again, lost no men at sea, and all his followers who escaped death in the field got safe home with him to Crete.
I have left as much more behind me for my children, but am fleeing because I killed Orsilokhos son of Idomeneus, the fleetest runner in Crete.
He said he had seen Odysseus with Idomeneus among the Cretans, refitting his ships which had been damaged in a gale.
Orations
Mythological figure reviled by Ajax the Locrian during the chariot race in the Iliad.
Only at the end he says that Ajax the Locrian watched too unbecomingly and reviled Idomeneus about the horses of Eumelus.
Letters to Lucilius
A minister of royal power and friend of Epicurus, addressee of several of Epicurus's letters.
Who would know Idomeneus, had not Epicurus graven him with his letters?
Read Epicurus's letter that bears on this matter, the one inscribed to Idomeneus.
It was to him that Epicurus wrote that noble saying, by which he urges him to make Pythocles rich, but not by the common nor the doubtful road.