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  • His greatest compositions may be classed in the following order: "Idomeneus"

    The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876

  • After his musical travels he went to Vienna, and there began his real period of classic activity, which commenced with "Idomeneus," reached its culmination in "Don Giovanni," and closed with the "Requiem," -- the "swan-song" of his wonderful life.

    The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers 1876

  • "Idomeneus," answered Meriones, "I come for a spear, if I can find one in my tent; I have broken the one I had, in throwing it at the shield of Deiphobus."

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • "Idomeneus," said he, "I treat you with greater distinction than

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • In whatever period this history was written, whether it was imitated from the Greek history of Agamemnon and Idomeneus, or was the model from which that history was taken; whether it might be anterior or posterior to similar narratives in Assyrian history is not the point I am now examining.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Bacchus from the holy books of the Hebrews, any more than the sacrifice of Iphigenia, that of the son of Idomeneus, the labors of

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • A different group of men testifies to the prior Greek penetration of the Aegean: Idomeneus of Crete, the island that Greek arms had grabbed from the Minoans; Tlepolemus son of Heracles, a thug who had murdered his great-uncle on the mainland and moved to Rhodes; and men from the other Dodecanese islands of the southeastern Aegean Sea.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Idomeneus Mythical character, king of Crete and great spearman, fought at Troy.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Agamemnon called his most trusted lieutenants to the ritual: Nestor, Idomeneus, the two Ajaxes, Diomedes, and Odysseus; Menelaus joined them on his own initiative.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

  • Agamemnon called his most trusted lieutenants to the ritual: Nestor, Idomeneus, the two Ajaxes, Diomedes, and Odysseus; Menelaus joined them on his own initiative.

    The Trojan War Barry Strauss 2006

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