- Information
- Thracian king, owner of man-eating horses
- Son of
- 👤 Ares 👤 Cyrene (Thracian)
- Born at
- 🌍 Maroneia (Thrace)
- Ruler of
- 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 the Land of the Cicones (Thrace) 🌍 Abdera (Thrace) 🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace)
- Dies at
- 🌍 the Land of the Cicones (Thrace) 🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace) 🌍 Maroneia (Thrace)
- Killed by
- 👤 Heracles 👥 the Mares of Diomedes
- Has post-mortem existence at
- 🌍 the Underworld
- Dwelling
- 🏛️ the Palace of Diomedes (Thrace)
- Animals
- 👥 the Mares of Diomedes
- Related Entities
- 👤 Abderos 👤 Ares 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👤 Cyrene (Thracian) 👤 Eurystheus 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Heracles 👤 Sceiron 👥 the Mares of Diomedes 👤 Sinis 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 the Land of the Cicones (Thrace) 🌍 Pherai (Thessaly) 🌍 Abdera (Thrace) 🌍 the Land of the Bistones (Thrace) 🏛️ the House of Admetos (Pherai) 🌍 Maroneia (Thrace) 👤 Abdera 👤 the Groom of Diomedes (name unknown) 🌍 Lake Bistonis (Thrace) 🏛️ the Palace of Diomedes (Thrace)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.8 📖 Pausanias 3.18.12 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 64-76 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 476-506 📖 Euripides, Alcestis 1008-1035 📖 Pausanias 5.10.9-5.10.10 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 7 📖 Lucian, A True Story 2.23 📖 Pindar fr. 169a Snell-Maehler 📖 Pomponius Mela 2.29 📖 Ovid, Ibis 381-382 📖 Ovid, Ibis 401-402 📖 Strabo 7 fr. 18a-c Radt
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Pausanias Pindar Euripides, Alcestis Strabo Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, A True Story Pomponius Mela Ovid, Ibis
- Depictions
- 🎨 Hellenistic Carnelian Intaglio Ringstone (Hermitage Ж 560; LIMC Abderos 1) 🎨 Graeco-Roman Plasma Intaglio Ringstone (SMB FG 299; LIMC Abderos 2) 🎨 Pale Carnelian Intaglio Ringstone (LIMC Abderos 3) 🎨 Carnelian Intaglio Ringstone (LIMC Abderos 4) 🎨 Silver Relief Skyphos from Pompeii (MANN 145506)
- Reported depictions
- 🎨 Metopes of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Olympia East 1-6; West 1-6; LIMC Amazones 97) 🎨 Throne of Apollo at Amyclai (LIMC Acheloos 219)