Set of female names from Greek mythology
Diomede (; Ancient Greek : Διομήδη Diomēdē ) is the name of four women in Greek mythology :
Diomede, daughter of Xuthus . She married Deioneus , king of Phocis , and was the mother of Cephalus , Actor , Aenetus , Phylacus and Asterodia .[ 1] [ 2] (Interwiki: bn , ja )
Diomede or Diomedes, a Lapith and daughter of Lapithes and possibly of Orsinome . She married King Amyclas of Sparta and became the mother of King Argalus ,[ 3] King Cynortes ,[ 4] Hyacinthus ,[ 5] Polyboea ,[ 6] Laodamia [ 7] (or Leanira [ 8] ), Harpalus ,[ 9] Hegesandre [ 10] and, in other versions, of Daphne .[ 11]
Diomede, according to Homer , the daughter of one Phorbas , taken by Achilles as captive from Lesbos . She is named in the Iliad as the captive that Achilles lays with after he turns away the embassy of Ajax and Odysseus .[ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
Diomede, wife of Pallas and mother of Euryalus , who fought at Troy . Nothing else is known about her.
Notes
^ Hesiod , Ehoiai fr. 10(a) and 58; Apollodorus , 1.9.4; Hyginus , Fabulae 198
^ Hard, pp. 435 , 565
^ Pausanias , 3.1.3
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.5 & 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.13.1
^ Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3
^ Pausanias, 3.19.4
^ Pausanias, 10.9.5
^ Apollodorus, 3.9.1
^ Pausanias, 7.18.5 (Achaica )
^ Scholia on Homer , Odyssey 4.10; Pherecydes , fr. 132
^ Parthenius , 15
^ Homer, Iliad 9.665
^ Eustathius on Homer, 596
^ Dictys Cretensis , 2.19, where she is called "Διομήδεια " (Diomedeia )
References
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Dictys Cretensis , from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology" , Psychology Press, 2004, ISBN 9780415186360 . Google Books .
Homer , The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318 . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Parthenius , Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Parthenius, Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1 . Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4 . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
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