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Diomedes Devoured by his Horses, by Gustave Moreau (1865), oil on canvas, 140 x 95.5 cm., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen Diomedes Devoured by his Horses, by Gustave Moreau (1866), watercolor, 19.1 x 17.1 cm., private collection. Chronological listing of classical literature sources for the Mares of Diomedes:
In Greek mythology, King Diomedes of Thrace (Ancient Greek: Διομήδης) was the son of Ares and Cyrene. [2] He lived on the shores of the Black Sea ruling the warlike tribe of Bistones. [3] [4] He is known for his man-eating horses, [5] which Heracles stole in order to complete the eighth of his Twelve Labours, slaying Diomedes in the ...
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".
Having scared the horses onto the high ground of a knoll, Heracles quickly dug a trench through the peninsula, filling it with water and thus flooding the low-lying plain. When Diomedes and his men turned to flee, Heracles killed them with an axe (or a club [20]), and fed Diomedes' body to the horses to calm them.
[1] [2] This Diomedes was the king of the Bistones who was in the habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length he himself was punished in the same way by Heracles. [3]
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Chassériau's premature death in 1856 deeply affected Moreau, and he left Paris to travel in Italy from 1857 to 1859, returning with hundreds of copies and studies he made of old master paintings there. In 1864 his painting Oedipus and the Sphinx received a great deal attention at the Paris Salon, winning a medal and establishing his reputation ...