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Prompts will be posted well ahead, so feel free to create things in advance and queue them up for the day of the prompt if you’re busy on any day!
The digital library “Topostext” has a database sorted via characters if you look for Diomedes there (https://topostext.org/people/124) you can find all mentions of him in the most important ancient sources, it’s a great place for research, his Wikipedia page is also very extensive! Use this opportunity to learn more about him!
For anyone who may want to dig REALLY deep into his character I have compiled a document (Diomedes-Doc) with sources and papers that are about him or relevant to him, feel free to use it or don’t! Just have fun with it!
Prompts Week 2
Day 1
-> Epigoni (i.e. war at thebes / sthenelus)
-> Childhood (i.e. becoming king / oath)
-> Rare Pair (i.e. romantic / platonic)
Day 2
-> Consequence (i.e. PTSD / made enemies)
-> Gods (i.e. athena / fighting the gods)
-> Headcanon (i.e. ichor scars / ftm)
Day 3
-> Son Of Tydeus (i.e. cannibalism / living up to expectations)
-> War (i.e. troy / thebes / calydon)
-> (Animal) Symbolism (i.e. boar / albatross)
Day 4
-> Blood (i.e. bloodshed / wounds)
-> Trojan War Characters (i.e. odysseus / outside the battlefield)
-> Epithets (i.e. horse-tamer / lord of the war-cry)
Day 5
-> Hero Cult (i.e. “lord of the adriatic sea” / worship)
Today Ulises provided me with his expert advice through his fantastic and exclusive Free Ecological Service. My questions weren't related to archaeobotany or archaeometerology, but rather to topics concerning the Bronze Age army and some specific questions about Mycenaean epithets, patronymics, etc. But since Ulises knows all this and more, he gave me WONDERFUL advice and info.
Quick, well-explained, resourcered and very personal.
MY REVIEW IS 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and I'm not saying that because he's my friend, but because he's a PROFESSIONAL.
So I recommend him 100%.
GRACIAS, TÍO 🙏🏼🩵
¡Holi!
It has been a real pleasure working with you aswell! So If you need any help you know where I am. I'm so glad that my services have been so helpful to you!
used to think so much about how I could justify giving trojan war characters scars and the logistics of how they’d get them in battle but then I realized I could give Diomedes scars that look a little like boar’s tusks and I never looked back
Diomedes is one of the many heroes that exists within the larger corpus of myths within Greek (and later Roman) mythology, who lived at the time of the Trojan War and was one of the leaders that sailed to Troy to bring back Helen and sack the city.
He was born and raised in Argos, a city in the east of the Greek Peloponnesian Peninsula which is historically the second oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe and mythologically was home to and involved in myths and like the Danaïdes, Perseus, Melampus, as well the Seven Against Thebes .
He plays a significant role in the Iliad, one of the epic poems that told the story of the Trojan war (and with the odyssey the only one that survives in full to this day). In the Iliad he plays an important part in Book/Rhapsody Five, as well as Ten, with various other scenes and appearances.
Outside the Trojan War he also played a (unfortunately today unknown) role in one of the epics surrounding the Theban Cycle - The Epigoni.
However even outside of those poetic cycles there's a whole row of myths that surround him a few before and a good number after the Trojan war. He was also worshiped as a hero god (similar to Heracles, though with a smaller cult) during archaic and later times.
Despite this he's surprisingly unknown today (though his popularity seems to be slowly rising again…yet even then he's mostly known for the trojan war and exploits with Odysseus, and little else)
So the next hopefully 49 posts (or through however many i manage to hold pace) will be covering all I've learned in the past 2 years of my research.
Hope you enjoy; feel free to let me know which topic you're interested in next, the full list you can find in the introduction post.
Two years ago I compiled a list for ideas for a post series on Diomedes
Basically examining all aspects of Diomedes and making an informational post about it
I ended up with 50 base ideas, i got caught up looking at resources and research all in between so I never started drafting it
Today Im bored so
Should I start writing a Diomedes 50 Posts Series
Yes! Doesn't matter if it never gets completed
Yeah, but only if all are drafted & ready to post
Eh, i don't really care / Who Is Diomedes...I want to click the button anyway
From Book V of Homer's Iliad. Upon being grievously wounded by the Achaean warrior Diomedes, the hero Aeneas is saved through divine intervention from his mother, the goddess Aphrodite.
The characters are depicted here in historically inspired looks from the late Bronze Age, the period when the Trojan War was believed to have been set. Aphrodite's look in particulate is based off of Mycenaean frescos as well as Cypriot idols.
Odysseus and Diomedes on the mission to steal the horses of Rhesus
Chalcidian black-figure neck amphora, atributed to Incription Painter, 540 BC, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
The first photo depicts Odysseus killing a tracian soldier, the second photo is Diomedes killing King Rhesus, the next two photos show the horses of Rhesus, and the last two photos are equestrian decorative motifs.
Aside from how obviously beautiful Amphora is as a whole, I love the fact that the weapons are perched in trees and everyone is on cots, it's so cute, not to mention the clothes they're all wearing.
I also love the horses, they're all gorgeous.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Iliad - Homer, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Diomedes/Euippe
Characters: Diomedes (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Sthenelus son of Capaneus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Euippe daughter of Daunus (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore), Daunus (Ancient Roman Religion & Lore)
Additional Tags: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Diomedes is Bad at Feelings (Ancient Greek Religion & Lore)
Hi everyone! This is the first chapter of a story I’m writing about Diomedes and Euippe. I hope you enjoy it!
🙉🙊🙈 we covered pretty much all aspects of Diomedes' life last year, but we will make sure to make it nice this year too! As long as the new prompts arent up you can totally still submit something frol last year btw! (...afterwarods too buuuuttt yk :>)
hii!! I wanted to start off by saying I love your art, it's so pretty. anyways, my questions are:
If so the when?
also how do you imagine Diomedes' second wife, Euippe? We don't really know anything about her so I'm just curious
how I imagine Euippe ;) she's absolutely a guiding figure for him, this man barely knew how to be a human being in Greece, so a new land entirely? chaos!
thank you for the kind words <3
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