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.

Diomedes and Odysseus, when faced with his attack, described him as what Robert Fagles translated as an ' invincible headlong terror ', and a ' maniac '.

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.

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.

Odysseus and Diomedes retrieved Philoctetes, whose wound had healed.

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

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

Awakened by Apollo, he is the first to discover the damage caused by Odysseus and Diomedes in the Thracian camp.

Odysseus and Diomedes came to Scyros seeking Achilles.

Odysseus devised a trick to draw Achilles out of his disguise as a girl ; Diomedes and Odysseus then took Achilles to Troy.

Diomedes, Nestor and Odysseus were some of the greatest Achaean strategists.

In Aulis, where Achaean leaders gathered, Diomedes met his brother in arms Odysseus, with whom he shared several adventures.

When he decided to sacrifice his daughter to Artemis, Diomedes and Odysseus were among the few Achaean officers familiar with his plans.

Some say that Diomedes conspired with Odysseus against Palamedes, and under the pretence of having discovered a hidden treasure, they let him down into a well and there stoned him to death.

Others say that, though Diomedes guessed or knew about the plot, he did not try to defend Palamedes, because Odysseus was essential for the fall of Troy.

They woke up Odysseus, Nestor, Ajax, Diomedes and Idomeneus.

Although Odysseus had deserted Diomedes in the battlefield that very day, instead of bashing him, the latter praised his bravery in front of others.

On their way to the Trojan camp, Diomedes and Odysseus discovered Dolon approaching the Achaean camp.

On further questioning, Diomedes and Odysseus learnt that among the various allies, Thracians were the most vulnerable for they had come last and were sleeping apart from the others at the far end of the camp.

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.

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.

Other grammars by Charisius ( mainly a compilation of Thrax, as well as lost texts by Remmius Palaemon and others ) and Diomedes ( focusing more on prosody ) were popular in Rome as pedagogic material for teaching Greek to native Latin speakers.

All the troops from Argos, Tiryns, Troezen and some other cities were headed by Diomedes.

Only Diomedes and Menelaus were offered immortality and became gods in post Homeric mythology.

Impressed by his bravery and noble appearance, Diomedes inquired if he were an immortal in disguise.

Zeus saw that both Hector and Archeptolemus were about to be slain by Diomedes and decided to intervene.

While the others were sleeping inside their tents, king Diomedes was seen outside his tent clad in his armour sleeping upon an ox skin, already well-prepared for any problem he may encounter at night.

Then they went where Dolon had indicated, and having found the Thracian king, Diomedes let him and twelve of his soldiers pass from one kind of sleep to another ; for they were all killed in their beds, while asleep.

The Greeks never allowed the horses to drink from that river for all of them were stolen by Diomedes and Odysseus shortly after their arrival ).

These horses were given to king Diomedes.

Hector soon marked the havoc Diomedes and Odysseus were making, and approached them.

Two of her warriors named Alcibie and Derimacheia were slain by Diomedes.

Diomedes and Odysseus were charged with achieving this prophecy also.

This bow and arrows were used by Philoctetes ( who came with Diomedes and Odysseus to Troy ) to slay Paris ; this was a requirement to the fall of Troy.

According to some, Diomedes and Odysseus were sent into the city of Troy to negotiate for peace after the death of Paris.

Some of the other Trojan warriors slain by Diomedes during that night were Coroebus ( who came to Troy to win the hand of Cassandra ), Eurydamas and Eurycoon.

Agrius and his sons were themselves overthrown by Diomedes, who reinstated Oeneus as king.

All the sons except Thersites were killed by Diomedes.

Agamemnon, Diomedes, and other heroes from Argolís ’ s fertile plain figure prominently in the Iliad of Homer.

According to Homer, Diomedes enters the war with a fleet of 80 ships, third only to the contributions of Agamemnon ( 100 ships ) and Nestor ( 90 ).

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.

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

His enraged comrade Sthenelus urges Diomedes to stand up to Agamemnon by responding that he has bested his father and avenged his death by conquering " Seven-gated " Thebes.

* Although Diomedes dismissed Agamemnon ’ s taunting with respect, he did not hesitate to point out Agamemnon ’ s inadequacy as a leader in certain crucial occasions.

Diomedes points out the folly of offering these gifts, " Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.

* Diomedes also encourages Agamemnon to take the lead of tomorrow's battle.

When the sacrifice of Iphigenia ( Agamemnon ’ s daughter ) became a necessity for Achaeans to sail away from Aulis, king Agamemnon had to choose between sacrificing his daughter and resigning from his post of high commander among Achaeans ( in which case Diomedes would probably become the leader ).

Diomedes pointed out that this behavior was inappropriate for a leader like Agamemnon.

Agamemnon put Diomedes in charge of the mission and asked him to choose a companion himself.

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

Achilles then organized an athletic competition to honour his dead companion, which included a chariot race ( won by Diomedes ), boxing ( won by Epeios ), wrestling ( a draw between Telamonian Aias and Odysseus ), a foot race ( won by Odysseus ), a duel ( a draw between Aias and Diomedes ), a discus throw ( won by Polypoites ), an archery contest ( won by Meriones ), and a javelin throw ( won by Agamemnon, unopposed ).

* Hector, Agamemnon, Atreus, Diomedes

Agamemnon waits behind, to appease her ; Diomedes and Nestor set sail straightaway, and reach home safely ; Menelaus sets sail, but encounters a storm, loses most of his ships, lands in Egypt and is delayed there for several years.