Diomedes · Atlas

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Diomedes of Thrace1 mention

And Diomedes the Thracian, because he had embroidered raiment and sat upon a throne drinking the day through and living in luxury, and wronged strangers and those under him, keeping much cavalry—Heracles, striking him with his club, smashed him like an old wine-jar.

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Diomedes the Thracian1 mention

Orations (Greek)

He took the cattle of Geryon, which were fair, and admonished Diomedes the Thracian to give his horses grain to eat and not men, and convicted the Amazons of being women.

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in the texts

IliadClassical · Greek

Achaean prince and commander of the Argive contingent of eighty ships, one of the leaders honored at Agamemnon's sacrifice.

but Diomedes was chief over them all.

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these were led by Diomedes of the loud battle-cry, and Sthenelos son of famed Kapaneus.

chapter 2 ¶

First he asked Nestor and King Idomeneus, then the two Ajaxes and the son of Tydeus, and sixthly Odysseus, peer of gods in counsel;

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Achaean hero cited as an example of hardy military discipline and rhetorical ability.

Diomedes, at least, he laid down to rest very hardily upon the hide of a field-ox, setting his spears around him upright on their butt-spikes—not for adornment, but ready to be seized.

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"And the others, the best and most kingly of his heroes, he represented as having no less earnest concern for such ability—Diomedes and Odysseus and Nestor, this last surpassing all in understanding and persuasiveness.

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And Diomedes was driven from home, being of repute in the war second to none, and Neoptolemus, whether by Greeks or by some others;

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Against AlcibiadesClassical · Greek

An Athenian citizen who brought a chariot team to Olympia hoping to win glory for Athens, only to have it taken from him by Alcibiades.

Yet thanks to his influence with the Masters of the Games at Elis, Alcibiades deprived him of his team and competed with it himself.

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I imagine he would have been all eagerness to let him compete against himself, considering that he had forcibly ousted an Athenian rival and then had the impudence to contest the race with another man’s horses—after he had, in fact, warned the Greeks in general that they must not be surprised at his offering violence to any of them, seeing that he does not treat his own fellow Athenians as his equ …

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LettersLate Antiquity · Greek

Homeric hero whose saying Basil quotes about the folly of entreating a haughty man.

For to me it comes to mind to say the saying of Diomedes:

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On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

Homeric hero given divine companions in crises

This reasoning impelled the poets, and most of all Homer, to attach to the chief of the heroes — Ulysses, Diomedes, Agamemnon, Achilles — certain gods as companions of their crises and dangers.

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AlcestisClassical · Greek

King of the Bistones in Thrace and son of Ares, owner of flesh-eating horses that Heracles must capture.

Chorus:

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Chorus:

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Chorus:

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Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Greek captain seen by the chorus hurling quoits on the beach at Aulis.

Diomedes too at his favorite sport of hurling quoits;

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OrestesClassical · Greek

An Argive lord who proposed at the assembly that Orestes and Electra be punished with exile rather than death.

After him lord Diomedes made a speech;

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SuppliantsClassical · Greek

Son of Tydeus, prophesied by Athena to help lead the sons of the Seven against Thebes when grown.

thou too, Aegialeus, shalt take thy father’s place and in thy youth command the host, and with thee Tydeus’ son marching from Aetolia,—him whom his father named Diomedes.

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OdysseyClassical · Greek

Greek hero, son of Tydeus, who sails home with Nestor's fleet and lands safely at Argos.

The son of Tydeus went on also with me, and his crews with him.

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I know neither who got home safely nor who were lost but, as in duty bound, I will give you without reserve the reports that have reached me since I have been here in my own house.

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NemeanClassical · Greek

Hero made immortal by Athena.

And once the golden-haired, gray-eyed goddess made Diomedes an immortal god;

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Consolation to HelviaImperial · Latin

Greek hero of the Trojan War, cited among those scattered into foreign lands after the war.

What of Diomedes and the others whom the Trojan War, conquered and conquerors alike, scattered through foreign lands?

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ApologeticumLate Antiquity · Latin

Greek hero who wounded Venus in myth.

that Venus was wounded by a human arrow, because she wished to rescue her son Aeneas, all but slain by that same Diomedes;

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De PallioLate Antiquity · Latin

Mythological king with man-eating horses, one of Hercules's labors, invoked by contrast.

Where was Diomedes and his bloody stalls?

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