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Upon learning of Glaucus' ancestry, Diomedes planted his spear in the ground and told of how his grandfather Oeneus was a close friend of Bellerophon, and declared that the two of them despite being on opposing sides should continue the friendship. As a sign of friendship, Diomedes took off his bronze armor worth nine oxen and gave it to Glaucus.
Glaucus revealed he was the grandson of the hero Bellerophon, who was once hosted by Diomedes's grandfather Oeuneus. Upon revealing it, Diomedes realizes that their fathers had practiced xenia with each other, and they are guest-friends.
Diomedes does win, with his famed Trojan horses, taken from Aeneas in Book V, where it had been revealed they were descendants of the horses given by Zeus to King Tros, original founder of the Trojans, and are the finest that live. Diomedes first place prize is, "a woman skilled in all useful arts, and a three-legged cauldron".
A statue of Glaucus was installed in 1911 in the middle of the Fontana delle Naiadi, Mario Rutelli's fountain of four naked bronze nymphs, located in the Piazza Repubblica, Rome. Ezra Pound wrote a poem titled "An Idyl for Glaucus" from the perspective of Glaucus's human lover, abandoned after Glaucus had tasted the herb and leapt into the sea ...
The phrase is derived from the sixth book of Homer's Iliad, in which it is used in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes. During a battle between the Greeks and Trojans, Diomedes is impressed by the bravery of a mysterious young man and demands to know his identity. Glaucus replies: "Hippolochus begat me.
Diomedes: Mulius Patroclus: Thymbraeus Diomedes: Amphius Ajax the Greater: Eurydamas Diomedes: Mydon Achilles: Tlepolemus Patroclus: Amazons Killers: Amphoterus Patroclus: Eurymenes Meges: Mydon Antilochus: Troilus Achilles: Ainia Diomedes: Antiphates Leonteus: Eurynomus Ajax the Greater: Mygdon ? Tros Achilles: Alcibie † Antiphus Agamemnon ...
Glaucus tells his lineage, upon which Diomedes realizes their guest-friendship. Is it Hector and Achilles who exchange lineages, or Glaucus and Diomedes, or neither, or both? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.190.117.7 ( talk ) 05:31, 11 January 2015 (UTC) [ reply ]
Baucis and Philemon were an old married couple in the region of Tyana, which Ovid places in Phrygia, and the only ones in their town to welcome disguised gods Zeus and Hermes (in Roman mythology, Jupiter and Mercury respectively), thus embodying the pious exercise of hospitality, the ritualized guest-friendship termed xenia, or theoxenia when a ...