Diomede

This article is about the female Greek-mythology characters. For other uses, see Diomede (disambiguation).

Diomede (/ˌd.əˈmd/; Ancient Greek: Διομήδη Diomēdē) is the name of four women in Greek mythology.

Diomede of Lesbos

As written in Homer’s Iliad, Diomede was a mistress of Achilles, taken up after the seizure of Briseis by the King Agamemnon. Her father was Phorbas of Lesbos.[1][2]

Diomede the Lapith

Diomede was a Lapith, and daughter of Lapithes. She married King Amyclas of Sparta and was the mother of Hyacinthus, King Cynortes, Polyboea, Laodamia, and, in other versions, of Daphne.[3][4][5][6][7]

Diomede the Phocian

Diomede, daughter of Xuthus. She married Deioneus, king of Phocis, and was the mother of Cephalus, Actor, Aenetus, Phylacus and Asterodia.[8][9]

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Diomede, mother of Euryalus

A fourth character of the name Diomede is mentioned briefly in Hyginus.[10] She is given as the wife of Pallas and mother of Euryalus, who fought at Troy. Nothing else is known about her.

References

  1. Iliad 9. 665
  2. Eustathius on Homer, 596; Dictys Cretensis 2. 19, where she is called "Διομήδεια" (Diomedeia)
  3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1; 3. 10. 3
  4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 19. 4; 10. 9. 5.
  5. Theoi Project - LOVES OF APOLLO
  6. Theoi Project - POLYBOEA
  7. Parthenius, Love Romances, 15
  8. Classical E-Text: NOTES ON APOLLODORUS, BIBLIOTHECA 3d
  9. Apollodorus, The Library, 1.9.4
  10. Hyginus, Fabulae, 97
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