incomplete list of Obscure Diomedes Myth Collection
so like excluding the epigogi, the trojan war and his friends turning into birds CAPTURED By SON OF MARS "Diomedes, after the destruction of Troy, was cast by stress of weather upon the coast of Libya, where Lycus the son of Mars was king, whose custom it was to sacrifice all strangers to his father"
"But his daughter Callirrhoe, falling in love with Diomede, betrayed her father and set Diomede at liberty; who presently went his way without any regard to his benefactress, and Callirrhoe hanged herself upon it."-Plutarch, Parallela minora GOT MARRIED AND HAD KIDS "He went to Calydon in Aitolia where he made away with Agrius and his sons. He handed over the rule of the place to his grandfather Oineus. He then sailed for Argos but was swept into the Ionian Sea by a storm. When Daunius, king of the Daunians, saw who it was that had arrived, he begged him for help in warring against the Messapians, for a share of the land and marriage to his daughter. Diomedes agreed to the proposal, drew up his men and routed the Messapians, He took his land which he assigned to the Dorians, his followers. The daughter of Daunius gave him two sons, Diomedes and Amphinomus. He died of old age in the lands of the Daunians and the Dorians buried him with honours on the isle which they called Diomedia after him"-Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses KILLED A DRAGON "In the folds" refers to places that have prominences. "Colossus-striding": After the capture of Ilium, Diomedes threw stones from the Trojan wall into his ship instead of the usual ballast. Arriving in Argos and being overlooked by his wife Aegialeia, he went to Italy. There, he found a dragon in Scythia ravaging Phaiakia and killed it, holding the golden shield of Glaucus, the dragon mistaking the golden fleece for that of a ram. Honored greatly for this, he erected a statue made from the stones of Ilium." -Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem BTW THIS IS diomedes from the trojan war
"The Corcyraeans summoned Diomedes, and he killed a serpent in their country. He and a great party of men came to Iapygia and fought with those who were waging war against the Brundisians. and he gained honor. Constitution of the Tarantines"-Heraclides Lembus, On Constitutions "For as on wings they shall come back again, traversing with trackless steps the terraces. And a high god shall he be called by many, even by those who dwell by the cavernous plain of Io, when he shall have slain the dragon that harried the Phaeacians." -Lycophron, Alexandra
MET AENEAS POST WAR "And Aeneas told Diomedes, I know you took away the holy Palladium which lay in Troy, so that it could be written, the Palladium is given to Aeneas. Diomedes said to him that from the time Odysseus and I took it away neither I nor my army have lacked for disasters. So I was obliged to ask the Pythia about it. And I was given an oracle that said to give it to the Trojans. And Aeneas said, Give it to me. And immediately offering sacrifice, Diomedes handed the Palladium to Aeneas. Taking it, once summer had arrived, Aeneas set forth for Italy" -Malalas, Chronography
"And so it happened that when Diomedes in exile from Argos heard of Aeneas' expedition, he came to him, since peace and friendship existed between them, and asked for his help, after relating the misfortunes that had befallen Agamemnon and himself. Aeneas welcomed him and his little fleet of ships and gave him a small part of his army, since he had brought all the country under his sway."-Dio Chrysostom, Speeches
"Diomede went to the realm of Saturn. By this time the Trojan conqueror was founding another Troy at Lavinium and hanging up armour from Troy in a sacred grove at Laurentum. But when Diomede came to the stream of the Tuscan river and pitched his glittering camp on its bank, the sons of Priam trembled for fear. Then the son-in-law of Daunus held forth in his right hand a branch of silvery olive. He brought with him soldiers whose weapons glittered. as a pledge of peace, and spoke thus while the Trojans muttered in displeasure: Son of Anchises, lay aside the recollections of rage and fear. For all the sweat and blood we poured out by Xanthus and Simois, rivers of Ida, and by the Scaean gate, we are not to blame: we were driven on by the gods and the inexorable Sisters." Say, why should we not spend under happier auspices what yet remains of life? Let us join hands that grasp no swords. She whom you now behold shall be the witness of our alliance.' Thus he asked pardon of the Trojans, and displayed to their startled sight the image on the stern of his ship."-Silius Italicus, Punica
HAS A SWORD OF ORION "called Orion as if born from the urine, hence he also calls him three-father. But Diomedes had the sword of Orion"
-Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem HAS A EVIL HALF BROTHER
"went to Italy to the Daunian tribe among the barbarians, where Daunus reigned. Daunus, being besieged, asked Diomedes to help him, promising to give him a part of his land. Diomedes founded a city for the Daunians, which he called Hippion Argos. Later, Daunus offered him a choice between all the spoils of war or all the land, and Alaenus, the illegitimate brother of Diomedes, who was in love with Daunus's daughter Euippe, became their judge. He decided that Daunus should keep the land and Diomedes should take the spoils of war. Angered by this, Diomedes cursed the land, saying that no one would be able to sow the land or reap its fruits unless they were of his lineage and could move his steles. Later, Diomedes was killed by Daunus, "-Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem
