Diomede
Diomede (/ˌdaɪ.əˈmiːdiː/; 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 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, according to Homer, was the daughter of one Phorbas, taken by Achilles as a slave from Lesbos. She is named in the Iliad as the slave that Achilles sleeps with after he turns away the embassy of Ajax and Odysseus.[8][9]
- Diomede, wife of Pallas and mother of Euryalus, who fought at Troy. Nothing else is known about her.
References
- ↑ Classical E-Text: NOTES ON APOLLODORUS, BIBLIOTHECA 3d
- ↑ Apollodorus, The Library, 1.9.4
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 9. 1; 3. 10. 3
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3. 19. 4; 10. 9. 5.
- ↑ Theoi Project - LOVES OF APOLLO
- ↑ Theoi Project - POLYBOEA
- ↑ Parthenius, Love Romances, 15
- ↑ Iliad 9. 665
- ↑ Eustathius on Homer, 596; Dictys Cretensis 2. 19, where she is called "Διομήδεια" (Diomedeia)
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