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](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,[2] King Cynortes, Hyacinthus,[3] Polyboea,[4] Laodamia[5] (or Leanira[6]), and, in other versions, of Daphne.[7]
Diomede, according to Homer, 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][10]
Diomede, wife of Pallas and mother of Euryalus, who fought at Troy. Nothing else is known about her.

Notes

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.4
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.1.3
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.3
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 3.19.4
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.9.5
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.9.1
Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 15
Homer, Iliad 9.665
Eustathius on Homer, 596

Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 2.19, where she is called "Διομήδεια" (Diomedeia)

References

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.
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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. 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. Online version
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. . Greek text .

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