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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 ...
[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]
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".
His art (and symbolism in general) fell from favor and received little attention in the early 20th century but, beginning in the 1960s and 70s, he has come to be considered among the most paramount of symbolist painters. Gustave Moreau was born in Paris and showed an aptitude for drawing at an early age.
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.
On "River Monsters," Jeremy Wade traveled to South America to investigate where a Bolivian man named Oscar was killed when face was ripped off while swimming across the South American River.
Rhesus (/ ˈ r iː s ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ῥῆσος Rhêsos) is a mythical king of Thrace in The Iliad who fought on the side of Trojans.Rhesus arrived late to the battle and while asleep in his camp, Diomedes and Odysseus stole his team of horses during a night raid on the Trojan camp.