person
Idaeus
also: Ἴδαος, Ἰδαῖος
The Trojan herald of the Iliad (7.248 ff., 24.325 ff.), borrowed by Sappho to run in with the news of fr. 44: Hector is bringing Andromache home.
Reading notes
- Fragments of Book Two §44 Idaeus
The herald of the Iliad (7.248 ff., 24.325 ff.), lifted whole from epic: Sappho stages her wedding-news as a Homeric messenger scene, in Homer's own personnel.