Diomedes

Reading notes

• The Art of Poetry §131-152 Diomedes'

  Greek hero whose homecoming a bad poet would begin too far back, from the death of Meleager.

• The Odes §1.6 son of Tydeus

  Diomedes, the Greek hero who wounded gods at Troy with Athena's help.

• The Odes §1.15 Tydides

  Diomedes, 'better than his father,' who rages to find Paris.

• The Satires §1.5 brave Diomedes

  The Homeric warrior who, by legend, settled in south-east Italy after Troy and founded several Apulian towns, Canusium among them.