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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. 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. He is mentioned as a See also:special favourite of See also:Agamemnon (Iliad, iv. 257). According to See also:Homer (Odyssey, iii. 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. 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. 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. 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. 121, 400, 531, and Servius on those passages). But the Cretans showed his See also:grave at See also:Cnossus, where he was worshipped as a See also:hero with Meriones (.Diod. Sic. v. 79).
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