IDOMENEUS
, in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of See also:Deucalion, See also:grandson of See also:Minos and Pasiphae, and See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Crete
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As a descendant of See also:Zeus and famous for his beauty, he was one of the suitors of See also:Helen; hence, after her See also:abduction by See also:Paris, he took See also:part in the Trojan See also:War, in which he distinguished himself by his bravery
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He is mentioned as a See also:special favourite of See also:Agamemnon (Iliad, iv
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257)
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According to See also:Homer (Odyssey, iii
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191), he returned See also:home safely with all his countrymen who had survived the war, but later legend connects him with an incident similar to that of Jephtha's daughter
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Having been overtaken by a violent See also:storm, to ensure his safety he vowed to See also:sacrifice to See also:Poseidon the first living thing that met him when he landed on his native See also:shore
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This proved to be his son, whom he slew in accordance with his See also:vow; whereupon a See also:plague See also:broke out in the See also:island, and Idomeneus was driven out
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He fled to the See also:district of Sallentum in See also:Calabria, and subsequently to See also:Colophon in See also:Asia See also:Minor, where he settled near the See also:temple of the Clarian See also:Apollo and was buried on See also:Mount Cercaphus (See also:Virgil, Aeneid, iii
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121, 400, 531, and Servius on those passages)
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But the Cretans showed his See also:grave at See also:Cnossus, where he was worshipped as a See also:hero with Meriones (.Diod
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Sic. v
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79)
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