Diomedes

[ dahy-uh-mee-deez ]

nounClassical Mythology.
  1. a Greek hero in the Trojan War.

  2. a Thracian king who fed his wild mares on human flesh and was himself fed to them by Hercules.

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How to use Diomedes in a sentence

  • With his large and wearisome picture of “Hercules causing Diomedes to be devoured by his own Horses” he sealed his own fate.

  • The eighth labour was to obtain the mares of Diomedes, king of the Bistones, in Thrace, which fed upon human flesh.

  • The Greeks, aware of this prediction, sent Diomedes and Ulysses to carry it away during the night—a feat which they accomplished.

  • The ambassadors return from the city of Diomedes and report that he praises Æneas and counsels submission (263-336).

  • Diomedes no doubt figured in the story of the second attack upon Thebes.

    The Heroic Age | H. Munro Chadwick

British Dictionary definitions for Diomedes

Diomedes

Diomede or Diomed (ˈdaɪəˌmɛd)

/ (ˌdaɪəˈmiːdiːz) /


nounGreek myth
  1. a king of Argos, and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy

  2. a king of the Bistones in Thrace whose savage horses ate strangers

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