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1st Edition
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- Artists
- St. George, Daniel
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 2006 | | Class: | Art Print | | Status: | Official | | Run: | 60 | | Technique: | Screen Print | | Paper: | 80Ib Cream Speckle Tone | | Size: | 13 X 10 | | Markings: | Signed & Numbered |
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4 color silkscreen with metallic gold ink.
Original price includes US shipping.
About the sheet music: In Greek mythology, Idomeneus was a Cretan warrior, grandson of Minos. He led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War and was also one of Helen's suitors. Meriones was his charioteer and brother-in-arms.
In the Iliad, he is found among the first rank of the Greek generals, leading his troops and engaging the enemy head-on, and escaping serious injury. Like most of the other leaders of the Greeks he is alive and well as the story comes to a close.
After the war, his ship hit a horrible storm. Idomeneus promised Poseidon that he would sacrifice the first living thing he saw when he returned home if Poseidon would save his ship and crew. The first living thing was his son, whom Idomeneus refused to sacrifice, reneging on his word. Angry at this breach of their trust, the Gods sent a horrible plague to the island of Crete, and the Cretans sent him into exile in Calabria, Italy. (Virgil III, 400)
Idomeneo, a 1780 opera seria by Mozart is based on the story of Idomeneus.
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