Idomeneus

British  

/ aɪˈdɒmɪˌnjuːs /

noun

1. Greek myth a king of Crete who fought on the Greek side in the Trojan War

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Example Sentences

Everyone pressed me, pressed King Idomeneus to take command of ships for Ilion.

From Literature

My master he had seen in Krete, he said, lodged with Idomeneus, while the long ships, leaky from gales, were laid up for repairs.

From Literature

Idomeneus brought his company back to Krete; the sea took not a man from him, of all who lived through the long war.

From Literature

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.

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times