Diome'des

Diome'des, the bravest, after Achilles, of all the Greeks who took part in the Trojan war. The son of Tydeus, he is constantly called by his patronymic, Tydides. He vanquished in fight Hector and Æneas, the most valiant of the Trojans; and even Ares and Aphrodite, when they took the field on the Trojan side, were attacked and wounded by him. In the games instituted by Achilles in honour of Patroclus, he gained the prize in the chariot-race, and worsted the mighty Ajax in single combat. Along with Ulysses, he carried off the Palladium, on which the fate of Troy depended. On returning to Argos, to the crown of which he had succeeded after the death of Adrastus, he found that his wife had proved unfaithful in his absence, whereupon he sailed away to Italy, there married the daughter of King Daunus, and lived to a good old age. The towns of Beneventum, Venusia, Canusium, and Brundisium claimed to have been founded by him.