Diomedes

In Greek mythology, the son of Tydeus, successor of Adrastus as king of Argos, southern Greece, and a prominent leader in Homer's Iliad. A favourite of the goddess Athena, he sailed against Troy with 80 ships, and was considered the bravest of the Greeks next to Achilles.

In later traditions, he allegedly helped the hero Odysseus to carry off the Palladium, a statue of Athena, after the sack of Troy.

After returning to Argos, he found his wife living in adultery, so he travelled to Aetolia to aid his grandfather Oenus. On his journey home, he was shipwrecked on the coast of Daunia in Italy (Apulia), where he married Euippe, daughter of King Daunus, and died at a great age. He was buried on one of the offshore islands, named the Diomedans in his memory, and his companions were changed into birds.