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Diomedes

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Di·o·me·des  (d-mdz)
n. Greek Mythology
One of the Greek heroes of the Trojan War.
Diomedes [ˌdaɪəˈmiːdiːz], Diomede, Diomed [ˈdaɪəˌmɛd]
n Greek myth
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a king of Argos, and suitor of Helen, who fought with the Greeks at Troy
2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) a king of the Bistones in Thrace whose savage horses ate strangers


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His work included the adjudgment of the arms of Achilles to Odysseus, the madness of Aias, the bringing of Philoctetes from Lemnos and his cure, the coming to the war of Neoptolemus who slays Eurypylus, son of Telephus, the making of the wooden horse, the spying of Odysseus and his theft, along with Diomedes, of the Palladium: the analysis concludes with the admission of the wooden horse into Troy by the Trojans.
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