Diomedes ' aristeia represents many of his heroic virtues such as outstanding fighting skills, bravery, divine protection / advice, carefully planned tactics of war, leadership, humility and self-restraint.

Also in the Iliad, another instance of this phenomenon can be found in Diomedes ' outstanding performance in battle, empowered by Athena ( Book V ) as well as Hector's in the Trojan assault on the Achaian camp in Book VIII ( with the help of Zeus ) and Patroklos ' aristeia of Book XVI, which ultimately leads to his demise at the hands of Hector.

One is fought between Diomedes with the direct aid of Athena against Ares ( part of Diomedes ' aristeia in Book 5 ).

Diomedes won great renown amongst the Achaeans, killing the Trojan hero Pandaros and nearly killing Aeneas, who was only saved by his mother, Aphrodite.

Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.

Apart from his outstanding fighting abilities and courage, Diomedes is on several crucial occasions shown to possess great wisdom, which is acknowledged and respected by his much older comrades, including Agamemnon and Nestor.

Shortly after that Paris jumped up in joy for he managed to achieve a great feat by fixing Diomedes ' foot to the ground with an arrow.

Paris's second attempt at combat is equally faced: rather than engage the Greek hero Diomedes in melee combat, Paris wounds Diomedes with an arrow through the foot.

Diomedes or Diomed () is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.

Diomedes was worshipped as a hero not only in Greece, but on the coast of the Adriatic, as at Thurii and Metapontum.

According to tradition, Canosa, then called Canusium, was founded by the Homeric hero Diomedes.

There are several traditions concerning its founders ; one of them claims that it was founded by the legendary hero Diomedes.

According to tradition, the town was founded by Diomedes, the Greek hero.

Cressida pledges her love to Troilus but she soon switches her affections to the Greek hero Diomedes when sent to her father in a hostage exchange.

Venusia was supposedly one of many cities said to be founded by the Greek hero Diomedes after the Trojan War.

Diomedea amsterdamensis can be broken down into Diomedea from the Greek hero Diomedes, whose companions were turned to birds, and amsterdamensis, a Latin form of " Amsterdam " the island where they are found.

* In Book IV Agamemnon taunts Diomedes by calling him a much inferior fighter than his father.

In Book VI, Diomedes continued his feats by killing Axylus and Calesius.

In Book VII, Diomedes was among the nine Achaean warriors who came forward to fight Hector in a single combat.

" ( In Book 15, Zeus tells Hera that he has already planned the method of bringing Achilles back to battle, confirming that Diomedes was right all along )

Book XIV-The wounded kings ( Diomedes, Agamemnon and Odysseus ) held council with Nestor regarding the possibility of Trojan army reaching their ships.

Book XXIII-In the funeral games of Patroclus, Diomedes ( though wounded ) won all the games he played.

He is mentioned in Book VI of Homer's Iliad where he is killed by Diomedes.

In Book VIII of the Iliad, his son Archeptolemus suddenly becomes the charioteer of Hector when Eniopeus is killed by Diomedes.

Rhesus or Rhêsos () was a Thracian king who fought on the side of Trojans in Iliad, Book X, where Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of fine horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.

His most recent roles include the narrator Detective Herschel Biggs in the video game LA Noire, the Chaos Advisor and Captain Apollo Diomedes in Relic Entertainment's Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, Warhammer 40, 000: Dawn of War II – Retribution, Laserbeak in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Bastion in X-Men Destiny, several voices in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Ronan the Accuser in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Living Laser in Ultimate Spider-Man, and the Crowfather in Darksiders II.

In the Iliad, when Diomedes injured Aeneas, Apollo rescued him.

First, Aphrodite tried to rescue Aeneas but Diomedes injured her as well.

In Homer, Aphrodite, venturing into battle to protect her son, Aeneas, is wounded by Diomedes and returns to her mother, to sink down at her knee and be comforted.

Aphrodite and Apollo rescue Aeneas from combat with Diomedes of Argos, who nearly kills him, and carry him away to Pergamos for healing.

After Achilles, Ajax is the most valuable warrior in Agamemnon's army ( along with Diomedes ), though he is not as cunning as Nestor, Diomedes, Idomeneus, or Odysseus, he is much more powerful and just as intelligent.

Apollo found him wounded by Diomedes and lifted him to heaven.

A treatise on poetry by Diomedes Grammaticus is a good example, as this work ( among other things ) categorizes dactylic hexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden line rubric.

When Heracles brought back the man-eating Mares of Diomedes successfully, Eurystheus dedicated the horses to Hera and allowed them to roam freely in the Argolid.

Diomedes and Odysseus hinder Hector and win the Greeks some time to retreat, but the Trojans sweep down upon the wall and rain blows upon it.

According to the Iliad, during the Trojan War, Diomedes fought Hector and saw Ares fighting on the Trojans ' side.

Diomedes called for his soldiers to fall back slowly.

Hera encouraged Diomedes to attack Ares and he threw his spear at the god.

# Steal the Mares of Diomedes.

# Steal the Mares of Diomedes.

He was said to have been entrusted with — and slain by — the carnivorous mares of Thracian Diomedes.

* 1919 – Diomedes Olivo, Dominican Republic baseball player ( d. 1977 )

As Minerva Achaea, she was worshipped at Luceria in Apulia where votive gifts and arms said to be those of Diomedes were preserved in her temple.

Gem in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire " Diomedes stealing the Palladium ") are extant.

However, Pausanias, quoting the Cypria, says that Odysseus and Diomedes drowned Palamedes, while he was fishing, and Dictys says that Odysseus and Diomedes lured Palamedes into a well, which they said contained gold, then stoned him to death.

With the assistance of Athena, Diomedes then wounded the gods Aphrodite and Ares.

Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed.

Later, with Helen's help, Odysseus and Diomedes stole the Palladium.