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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Diomedes Biography DIOMEDES. The son of Tydeus and Deïpyle and King of Argos. He plays a prominent part in the legend of the Trojan War, where he appears as the companion of Odysseus in many adventures, such as the bringing of Achilles from Scyros, the carrying off of the horses of Rhesus, and the theft of the Palladium. At the funeral games of Patroclus he is victor in the chariot race. He played a large part too in the capture of Troy. Returning to Argos, he found that Aphrodite, in revenge for the wound which he had given her in a battle before Troy, had caused his wife to become unfaithful. In grief he left Argos and, according to the later tradition, went to Italy, where he was honored in a number of the southern cities, as Metapontum and Thurii. Arpi in Apulia, Canusium, Brundisium, and several other towns claimed him as their founder. Consult the article "Diomedes," by Bethe, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. v (Stuttgart, 1905). The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. VII (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 42. |