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"The myth of Idomeneo and his literary tradition" is the title of the work of the professor of Greek Philology of the University of Murcia (UMU) Mariano Valverde Sánchez, which has just been published by Signifer Books.
The work traces the presence of this myth of the king of Crete in the epic and other Greco-Latin sources, in the French literature of the eighteenth century and in the Spanish theater at the end of that century.
The author points out that among the various news of the ancient tradition, one version narrates the reckless vow of Idomeneus to Poseidon, pronounced during a storm upon his return from Troy, which forced him to sacrifice his son.
Transmitted by some mythographers, it was developed in Telemaque de Fénelon, a work of great influence throughout Europe, thanks to which this myth became throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as a recurrent argument for numerous tragedies and operas.
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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