He still kept an eye on Calydonian politics ( his father ’ s homeland ), and when the sons of Agrius ( led by Thersites ) put Oeneus ( Diomedes ’ grandfather ) in jail and their own father on the throne, Diomedes decided to restore the throne to Oeneus.

Diomedes attacked and ceded the Kingdom, slaying all the traitors except Thersites, Onchestus ( who escaped to Peloponnesus ) and Agrius ( who killed himself ) restoring his grandfather to the throne.

Unable to find the murderers, Diomedes founded a mythical city called " Oenoe " at the place where his grandfather was buried to honour his death.

The Bibliotheca places these events before the expedition of the Greeks against Troy, while Hyginus states that Diomedes, when he heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of his grandfather Oeneus, hastened back and expelled Agrius, who then committed suicide ; according to others, Agrius and his sons were all slain by Diomedes.

He married Amphitheia, daughter of his brother Pronax, and became the father of a son, Aegialeus, and four daughters: Aegialeia, who became the wife of Diomedes ( son of Tydeus ); Argeia, who became the wife of Polyneices ( son of Oedipus ); Deipyle, who became the wife of Tydeus ( son of Oeneus ); and Eurydice, who became the wife of the Trojan king, Ilus ( son of Tros ).

Later, Oeneus passed the Kingdom to his son-in-law Andraemon and headed for Argos to meet Diomedes.

The sons of Oeneus ' brother Agrius deposed him but Diomedes, his grandson through Tydeus, put Oeneus back on the Calydonian throne ( or the throne passed to Andraemon, husband of Gorge, due to Oeneus ' old age ).

Oeneus either died of natural causes or was killed by the surviving sons of Agrius who laid an ambush against him while Diomedes was transporting him to Peloponessus.

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

His wife took a lover and Diomedes lost his kingdom, so after the war he settled in Italy.

*" As he ( Diomedes ) spoke he sprang from his chariot, and his armour rang so fiercely about his body that even a brave man might well have been scared to hear it.

Thersites was so quarrelsome and abusive in character, that only his cousin, Diomedes, mourned for him.

According to some other sources, Diomedes angrily tossed Penthesileia's body into the river, so neither side could give her decent burial.

Despite his fury of war, Diomedes held back his sword so that the old man might speak.

* A descendant of Diomedes, who was instructed by Temenus to steal the Palladium from Argos and did so together with Leager, a friend of Temenus '.

In another version, Heracles stayed awake so that he didn't have his throat cut by Diomedes in the night, and cut the chains binding the horses.

In another version, Hercules stayed awake so that he didn't have his throat cut by Diomedes in the night, and cut the chains binding the horses.

Diomedes and Glaucus

In the Iliad, Diomedes, one of the leading warriors of the Achaeans, mentions the thyrsus while speaking to Glaucus, one of the Lycian commanders in the Trojan army, about Lycurgus, the king of Scyros:

Diomedes and Glaucus meet in battle and before attacking, the former asks the lineage of the latter.

Glaucus tells his lineage, upon which Diomedes realizes their guest-friendship.

208 ) in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes.

Once Troilus and Cressida are dressed, Aeneas visits in a panic to say that for the return of one of Troy's men from the Greeks, Antenor, they must trade Cressida over to Diomedes, a Greek general.

* Diomedes also points out that because Troy is destined to fall, they should continue fighting regardless of Zeus ’ interventions.

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

She also promised the sacrifice of twelve heifers if Athena could take pity on them and break the spear of Diomedes.

Diomedes and Odysseus were charged with achieving this prophecy also.

There are traces in Greece also of the worship of Diomedes.

Diomedes and Odysseus are also here for their part in the Trojan Horse.

The Mares of Diomedes, also called the Mares of Thrace, were four man-eating horses in Greek mythology.

The fourth century grammarians Diomedes and Aelius Donatus were also a source of classical theory.

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.

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.

* Diomedes was first thrown by a storm on the coast of Lycia, where he was to be sacrificed to Ares by king Lycus, but Callirrhoe, the king's daughter, took pity upon him, and assisted him in escaping.

Another Xanthus, not to be confused with the horse mentioned above, was one of the horses of Diomedes of Thrace, who fed these animals on human flesh.

Second only to Achilles, Diomedes is considered to be the mightiest and the most skilled warrior among the Achaeans.

In the Achaean council, Diomedes was the first one to speak: " Let there be no taking, neither treasure, nor yet Helen, for even a child may see that the doom of the Trojans is at hand.

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

The worship and service of gods and heroes was spread by Diomedes far and wide: in and near Argos he caused temples of Athena to be built.

Neither Homer nor Virgil gives the reader any foreshadowing of Diomedes's death except for a passage in the Iliad in which Dione, Aphrodite's mother, comforts the goddess of love ( after she has been injured by Diomedes ), telling her daughter that " the man who fights the gods does not live long " and will not be welcomed home from war by his children on his lap ( 5. 407-409 ).

Magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable, they belonged to the giant Diomedes ( not to be confused with Diomedes, son of Tydeus ), king of Thrace, a son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on the shores of the Black Sea.

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.

Since Troy could not be captured while it safeguarded this image, the Greeks Diomedes and Odysseus made their way to the citadel in Troy by a secret passage and carried it off.

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.