Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Idmon.
The gallery
Idmon and Mopsus Guided by Apollo
After Remigio Cantagallina (Argonaut festival series), c. 1608–1620
Met plate from the Medici Argonaut pageant: Apollo steers a ship carrying Idmon and the Argonaut seer Mopsus (Ampycus’ son — not the Colophonian). Festival print keeps Idmon named among the knowing prophets of the Argo.
In play
WORK · c. 3rd century BCREAD MORE ↗
Argonautica (death of Idmon)
Apollonius of Rhodes
Apollonius’ seer — Apollo’s son (or Abas’) — reads his own death in the birds, sails anyway, and is gored by a boar among the Mariandyni. The Argonaut who foresaw the end and went.
WORK · c. 1st–2nd century ADREAD MORE ↗
Bibliotheca (Argonauts)
Apollodorus
Apollodorus lists Idmon among the Argonauts and records the boar that killed the knowing seer — the handbook version of Apollonius’ Mariandynian death.