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Medusa Mythology Exam 2013 Diomedes

Medusa Mythology Exam 2013 Diomedes. Magister Vader. Diomedes , Before the Trojan War. Born in Calydon, but married into the Argive (from Argos) royal family

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Medusa Mythology Exam 2013 Diomedes

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  1. Medusa Mythology Exam 2013Diomedes Magister Vader

  2. Diomedes, Before the Trojan War • Born in Calydon, but married into the Argive (from Argos) royal family • Fought among the Epigoni (sons of the Seven Against Thebes, who sought unsuccessfully to replace one son of Oedipus on the throne of Thebes with another son of Oedipus), who were successful where their fathers failed • Successfully took back throne of his grandfather from usurpers, installing his uncle, and attempting to bring his grandfather back to Argos, but whom the usurped usurpers killed en route. • One of the suitors of Helen and bound by the Oath of Tyndareus – obligated to defend Menelaus’s marriage to Helen and thus to participate in the Trojan War • Helped Odysseus lure Iphigenia away form Mycenae to Argos under the false pretense of marriage, but truly for her own death

  3. Diomedes, During the War • Led troops from Argos, Tiryns, and Troezen • Helped Odysseus murder Palamedes, the man, who exposed Odysseus’s ploy to avoid participation in the Trojan War • When Aphrodite was rescuing her overwhelmed son (Aeneas), Diomedes wounded her • Hermes rebuked him for this action • With Athena at his side, he wounded Ares • Killed King Rhesus of Thrace and his troops while they slept, with Odysseus • Stole the Palladium, a sacred statue, said to have fallen from the heavens, from Troy, and without which the Greeks would be unable to capture Troy • Discovering that his grandfather and the grandfather of Glaucus, a Trojan ally, exchanged their armor and pleasantries, in battle • Was amongst those in the wooden horse as it was wheeled into Troy

  4. Diomedes, After the Trojan War • Oeax, brother of Palamedes (who was murdered by Odysseus and Diomedes at Troy), perpetrated plot against Diomedes: convinced Diomedes’s wife, Aegialia, to take another lover and deny Diomedes passage into his own city • Fled from Argos to Italy, where he either was killed by the local king or married his daughter and lived his life there • When Italians tried to tap him to help fight Aeneas, when he had arrived in Italy, Diomedes refused • Some say that his followers were changed into birds • Some say that Athena secured his apotheosis

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