Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Greek hero in the Trojan War, literally "advised by Zeus," from Dios, genitive of Zeus (see Zeus) + medos "counsel, plan, device, cunning" (see Medea).
Wikipedia
Diomedes ( or ) or Diomede (; ) is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.
He was born to Tydeus and Deipyle and later became King of Argos, succeeding his maternal grandfather, Adrastus. In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as one of the best warriors of all the Achaeans (behind only Achilles in prowess). Later, he founded ten or more Italian cities. After his death, Diomedes was worshipped as a divine being under various names in Italy and also in Greece.
Diomedes may mean:
- Diomedes, in Greek mythology, a hero of the Trojan War and king of Argos.
- Diomedes Soter, an Indo-Greek king.
- Diomedes of Thrace, king of Thrace in Greek mythology, owner of four man-eating mares in the 8th Labour of Hercules
- Saint Diomedes of Tarsus (died c.300), feast day August 16
- Saint Diomedes, feast day September 2
- Diomedes Grammaticus (4th century), a Latin grammarian
- Diomedes Cato (c.1563 - c.1618), a Polish-Italian composer
- Diomedes Maturan (c.1940-2002), a Filipino actor
- Diomedes Komnenos (1956-1973), a Greek student and casualty of the Athens Polytechnic uprising
- Diomedes Díaz (1957–2013), a Colombian vallenato singer and composer
Usage examples of "diomedes".
First, the war god morphs into the runner Acamas, prince of Thrace, and runs to and from among the milling Trojans, urging them back into the battle to push the Greeks out of the salient they have created following Diomedes into the Trojan lines.
Now it is Aeneas and Diomedes leading the fighting on opposite sides of the line, killing enemy captains by the bucketful, while Apollo and Ares urge more Trojans into the fray.
Argolis fighters, plain-speaking Diomedes, is also here, not happy tonight, glowering at the ground, his arms folded.
Like the gods themselves, and like me, Diomedes the man will now be part machine, his eyes and skin and very blood enhanced by nanotechnologies from some future age far beyond my short life span.
The chariot has been halted in the act of bearing down on Diomedes, all the human players here unaware that the goddess Athena has stopped everything while she plays dolls with her chosen champion, dressing Diomedes in forcefields and thru-view contact lenses and nano-augmenters like some pre-teen girl playing with her Barbie.
In the last slowed seconds before real-time resumes, I remember that if the actual fighting goes the way of the old poem, Aphrodite herself will be injured by Diomedes in the coming hour.
Athena finishes her fussing with Diomedes and releases her grip on space and time.
Greeks follow Diomedes into the breach created by the killing of Phegeus.
There is a mist of blood in the air around shining Diomedes and a heap of corpses on each side of the slashing, hacking, stabbing Achaean.
The augmented Diomedes appears to be hacking his way through waves of human flesh to catch up to the slowly retreating Aphrodite.
Rather than press home his successful attack on Aphrodite, Diomedes unsheaths his sword and prepares to decapitate the unconscious Aeneas.
Aphrodite is blubbering and wailing in pain, trying to explain that Diomedes has gone mad.
The Trojans have backed away now, eyes bugging, and Diomedes is being held at bay by the overlapped energy fields.
The god stands motionless as Diomedes hacks and cuts his way through the shimmering forcefield like a man shoveling invisible snow.
The Trojan fighters rush to form a circle around their fallen and abandoned leader before Diomedes slaughters him.