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Diomedes or Diomede is a hero in Greek mythology, known for his participation in the Trojan War.
Diomedes, King of Argos – Roman copy of a statue by Kresilas from c. 430 BC. Louvre, Paris
Athena counseling Diomedes shortly before he enters the battle. Schlossbrücke, Berlin.
Odysseus and Diomedes carry off Iphigenia by force. Antique fresco in Pompeii
Diomedes, assisted by Minerva, wounds Mars, by Rafael Tegeo,1831
In Greek and Roman mythology, the Palladium or Palladion was a cult image of great antiquity on which the safety of Troy and later Rome was said to depend, the wooden statue of Pallas Athena that Odys
Nike (Victory) offers an egg to a snake entwined around a column surmounted by the Trojan Palladium. (Marble bas relief, Roman copy of the late 1st century AD. After a neo-Attic original of the Hellenistic era.)
Ajax the Lesser drags Cassandra from the Palladium. Detail from a Roman fresco in the atrium of the Casa del Menandro (I 10, 4) in Pompeii.
Diomedes with the Palladium approaches an altar
Odysseus and Diomedes steal the Palladium from Troy. (Apulian red-figure oinochoe of c. 360–350 BC from Reggio di Calabria.)