Idomeneus.

    Grandson of Minos and son of Deucalion, Idomeneus was the leader of the eighty-ship Cretan contingent in the Trojan War. He had been one of Helen’s suitors and was one of the Greeks hidden inside the wooden horse at the fall of Troy. Caught in a storm on his homeward journey, Idomeneus vowed to Poseidon that if he could reach Crete safely he would sacrifice the first thing he met there. When he disembarked, the first to greet him was his son. Idomeneus dutifully prepared the sacrifice but was interrupted when a plague broke out on the island. The Cretans saw it as divine retribution for his actions and exiled him. He setded in Calabria in southern Italy.