Diomedes

First appears: The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2

Life events

Palamedes drowned while fishing, and Diomedes and Odysseus caused his death.(The Cypria · Part 2)
- With: Palamedes Odysseus
- “Palamedes was drowned when he had gone out fishing, and that it was Diomedes and Odysseus who caused his death.”
The Argives rewarded Homer with gifts and a statue, and decreed recurring sacrifices to him and a five-yearly sacrifice to Chios.(The Contest of Homer and Hesiod · Part 2 · 📍 Argos)
- With: Homer Tydeus Oeneus Sthenelus Capaneus Eurypylus Mecisteus Talaus
- “This praise of their race by the most famous of all poets so exceedingly delighted the leading Argives, that they rewarded him with costly gifts and set up a brazen statue to him, decreeing that sacrifice should be offered to Homer daily, monthly, and yearly; and that another sacrifice should be sent to Chios every five years.”

parent: Tydeus “these followed strong-voiced Diomedes, son of Tydeus, who had the spirit of his father the son of Oeneus, and Sthenelus, dear son of famous Capaneus.”

Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.