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	Station Information - Diomedes
		Diomedes, King of Thrace, was a son of Ares and Cyrene.
		The eighth labour of Heracles was to steal the Mares of Diomedes.
		Diomedes was the son of Tydeus and Deipyle and a favored hero of Athena.
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diomedes.html (449 words)

	The Mares of Diomedes
		Heracles' eighth task was to capture the four meat eating mare of King Diomedes.
		Diomedes heard the noise the mares were making and took off after Heracles.
		Diomedes and his gaurds were bashed on the head with Heracles' club and then fed to the mares.
	library.advanced.org /23057/diomedes.html (109 words)

	Diomedes 2, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Diomedes 2 then took Oeneus 2 to Argos; but when they were in Arcadia, Onchestus 1 and Thersites lay in wait for the old man and killed him.
		Others affirm that Odysseus and Diomedes 2 learned from Antenor 1 the oracle that declared that Troy would be destroyed if the Palladium were carried outside the city walls; and that it was the same Antenor 1, who after having obtained the Palladium from the priestess, wrapped it and sent it to Odysseus.
		Diomedes 2 is said to have thanklessly, sailed away, and the girl killed herself with a halter.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Diomedes2.html (2118 words)

	Diomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Homer's Iliad Diomedes is regarded alongside Ajax as the second-best warriors of all the Achaeans.
		Diomedes is also known for being one of the suitors of Helen, and therefore bound by the Oath of Tyndareus to defend and protect the one who would become her husband.
		Diomedes plays an important role in the medieval legend of Troilus and Cressida, in which he becomes the girl's new lover when she is sent to the Greek camp to join her traitorous father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diomedes (1888 words)

	Mares of Diomedes
		This was the eighth labor, Heracles was sent by Eurystheus to capture and bring back the mares of Diomedes, a Thracian chief (according to some sources he was the son of Ares and Cyrene, and was known as Diomedes king of Thrace).
		Diomedes kept four savage mares, to which he fed the flesh of unsuspecting strangers.
		After the hero and his band captured the mares they fled, because they were being pursued by Diomedes and his troops.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/m/mares_of_diomedes.html (365 words)

	Aries
		Diomedes means "Jove-counselled"; he was the son of Mars, the Astrological Lord of Aries.
		The Mares, or Hippai (Greek), are generally regarded as symbolical of the feminine aspect of the mind which gives birth to opinions, theories, and concepts.
		The conduct-moulding principle of Aries in the Soul (Diomedes), when unbridled and dominated by impulse (Mars), gives birth to false opinions and unrestrained lower mental activities (the Mares), which verge to fleshly sense-life.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/the_mares_of_diomedes.htm (518 words)

	The Mares of Diomedes
		Diomedes was the king of Thrace and son of the god of war Ares.
		Diomedes had no idea who Hercules was and his plan was to throw him and his companion to the mares as food.
		Diomedes attacked Hercules, and as he was Ares son and very strong they fought for a long time.
	www.steliart.com /hercules_diomedes.html (434 words)

	Mares of Diomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mares of Diomedes were four man-eating horses in Greek mythology.
		Magnificent, wild, and uncontrollable, they belonged to the giant Diomedes, king of Thrace, a son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on the shores of the Black Sea.
		One of the Twelve Labours of Heracles was to steal the Mares.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes (695 words)

	Diomedes - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was killed during the eighth labor of Hercules while trying to protect his man-eating horses.
		Hercules' Eighth Labor: the Man-Eating Mares of Diomedes.(Poem)
		Colombian soldier Diomedes Gutierrez Banquez stands guard by a mural on the side of a peasant's house near Valledupar.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-diomedes.html (208 words)

	Thebes, Herakles labors - The Horses of Diomedes
		In the eight labor, Herakles was ordered to bring alive the mares of Diomedes, king of Bistones at Thrace, who were fed with human flesh.
		Herakles won the battle and the body of Diomedes was thrown to be eaten by his mares.
		The Horses of Diomedes, cylix 510 BC Ellen Papakyriakou/Anagnostou.
	www.sikyon.com /Thebes/Labors/labor_eg08.html (127 words)

	HERACLES 1's LABOURS, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		As the eighth labour Eurystheus demanded that the MARES OF DIOMEDES 1 (Dinus, Lampon, Podargus 1, and Xanthus 2) be brought to Mycenae.
		Diomedes 1, son of Ares and the nymph Cyrene, was king of the warlike Bistonians, a people living in Thrace.
		In any case the MARES OF DIOMEDES 1 were brought to Mycenae, and Eurystheus, on receiving them, released them; and they, roaming to Mount Olympus, were there destroyed by wild beasts.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/HERACLESLABOURS.html (3085 words)

	Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 9: ...
		"Diomedes is the son of Ares and Cyrene and he is the king of a warlike tribe in Thrace called the Bistones.
		As King Diomedes and his troops rode onto the far end of the beach, Heracles' men aimed their bows and, at the signal, shot arrow after arrow at the quickly moving shadowy forms.
		Diomedes forces took refuge behind the rocks, but Heracles' men leaped off the rocks, knocking them from their horses.
	www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/heracles09.htm (911 words)

	Heracles
		The bull was released and wandered to Marathon, becoming known as the Marathonian Bull.
		The eighth labor of Heracles was to steal the Mares of Diomedes.
		Heracles' ninth task was to acquire the magical belt of Hippolyte, queen of the Amazons at the request of Admete, Eurystheus' daughter.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Heracles.html (3530 words)

	Hercules
		She set it free and the beast wandered through Argos and the Isthmus of Corinth to Attica, where it was captured by Theseus, king of Athens, and sacrificed to Athena.
		Diomedes was a king of the Bistones, a warlike Thracian people.
		The untameable mares were fed on the flesh of unsuspecting guests and were so ferocious that they were permanently tethered with iron chains.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/mmarassa/mythology/hercules.html (4399 words)

	Labor 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For the eighth labor, Eurystheus sent Herakles out to capture the mares of Diomedes, a Thracian Chief who lived in the wild and rugged region on the shores of the Black Sea.
		Then, as Herakles knew the brutality and suffering that Diomedes had caused, took him down to the stables and fed him to his own mares.
		This caused the mares to be calm and subdued, which than make it easy for Herakles to take them back to Eurystheus.
	www.janih.com /kitiana/greek/labors/08.html (111 words)

	Diomedes (Hercules' labors)
		Diomedes possibly possessed the normal human strength of a man of his size, height and build who engaged in extensive physical exercises.
		Ares gave Diomedes a team of man-eating mares passed down from King Oenomaus of Pisa, who was another of his mortal sons who had been long killed by the hero, Pelops.
		The mares ate Abderus while Hercules was distracted, but Hercules tamed the mares by throwing to them their own master, Diomedes, to feast upon.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/diomedes.htm (388 words)

	Thracian Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When the Bistones in arms came to the rescue, he committed the mares to the guardianship of Abderus, who was a son of Hermes, a native of Opus in Locris, and a minion of Hercules; but the mares killed him by dragging him after them.
		3.5.1), we may conjecture that the tradition of the man-eating mares of Diomedes, another Thracian king who is said to have been killed by horses, points to a custom of human sacrifice performed by means of horses, whether the victim was trampled to death by their hoofs or tied to their tails and rent asunder.
		If the sacrifice was offered, as the legend of Lycurgus suggests, for the sake of fertilizing the ground, the reason for thus tearing the victim to pieces may have been to scatter the precious life-giving fragments as widely and as quickly as possible over the barren earth.
	www.thrace.0catch.com /religion_main.htm (1946 words)

	MARES-OF-DIOMEDES : The fabulous creature from Greek Mythology
		MARES-OF-DIOMEDES: Four unfriendly horses belonging to the equally unfriendly King Diomedes of Thrace (who was the son of ARES and not the famous war buddy of ODYSSEUS).
		A surprise attack took care of the grooms, and he hustled and rustled the mares to the top of a small hill before they knew what was happening.
		Amidst the confusion, HERACLES charged in, smote Diomedes who was leading the pursuit, dragged him round the newly-formed lake and up the small hill.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=MARES-OF-DIOMEDES (367 words)

	Hercules and Diomedes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Diomedes, the son of Ares the war god, was king of the Bistones in Thrace.
		The four mares which he owned were chained to their troughs where they fed upon human flesh.
		However, he was delayed in his plans when the king aroused his people to attack and return the mares.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/hercules_and_diomedes.html (235 words)

	The Mares of Diomedes: The eighth of Heracles' Twelve Labors
		The Mares of Diomedes were four uncontainable - and man-eating - horses that were owned by King Diomedes of Thrace.
		In order to avoid trouble with Diomedes (in the form of a knife to his throat), Heracles made sure to stay awake, and he cut the horses free of their chains in the dark of night.
		Depending on the version of the myth that you read, Eurystheus either sent the mares to Mount Olympus for sacrifice (Zeus refused them and sent beasts to slaughter them), or they were set loose to roam Argos in their newly calmed state.
	ancienthistory.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_mares_of_diomedes?... (291 words)

	Hercules - The Mares Of Diomedes
		He was a very indignant king and trained his four mares to devour all strangers who came into the land.
		When Hercules traveled north, he found Diomedes getting water from the river to give his mares a drink.
		After Hercules was sure Diomedes was dead, he pulled him out of the river and fed his body to his own mares.
	www2.lhric.org /eastchester/schools/ms/hercules/hercules8.html (144 words)

	12 Trials of Heracles
		Diomedes was an evil man who threw unsuspecting strangers in with the savage mares to feed the mares.
		When Heracles made his arrival at the Palace of Diomedes, he threw Diomedes in with the savage mares as retrobution for all the evil he had done.
		After eating Diomedes, the mares became calm which allowed Heracles to easily bring the mares back to Eurystheus.
	spiffyentertainment.8m.com /trials.html (1638 words)

	Mythical Tales: The Twelve Labours of Herakles
		It was the mares of King Diomedes, who ate human flesh.
		On many occasions, the king had invited guests to his dinner table, and while they were off their guard he would knock them unconscious and feed them to his mares.
		While the mares were full after their meal, he chained them to the chariot and returned to Mycenae with the mares.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0118142/mythtale/herakles4.php (539 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Twelve Labors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		the nation of Thrace, is described as being the enemy of Argo during the Trojan War, and in that situation is associated with Diomedes.
		The central location of Herakles' tales, Argo, has a legend from the Trojan War, where a man called Diomedes steals the horses from the enemy King, but Herakles is the hero of the labours, and Diomedes now had the horses, the Mares of Diomedes.
		In addition, the stories concerning war and treachery (the story of the Mares of Diomedes, and the nearby story of the Girdle of Hippolyte), made more sense together, and make more sense being placed next to the 3 stories concerning death, thus producing the traditional order.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Twelve_Labors (2039 words)

	Hercules- ancient Greek & Roman mythology
		- Diomedes, the son of King Ares of Bistones, owned a group of mares which he fed human flesh.
		With the help of a group of volunteers, Hercules killed their guards, did battle with and vanquished the Bistones.
		Upon capturing Diomedes, he fed him to his own mares.
	www.calgarycoin.com /reference/myth/myhercul.htm (1249 words)

	Les cavales de Diomède
		VII THE MARES OF DIOMEDES Aquarius - January-February Air Being one's own manufacturer instead of the outer world's Nutrition Scenting a feast of flesh the mares have set to neigh For their master has cast for them fettered captives.
		Next Hercules was instructed to bring Eurystheus the mares of Diomedes.
		These horses were fed on the flesh of travellers who were foolish enough to accept Diomedes' hospitality.
	chrsouchon.free.fr /travaux/cavales.htm (444 words)

	<Heracles> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The eighth labor was to capture the man-eating mares of King Diomedes of Thrace.
		He killed Diomedes then herded the mares away.
		Diomedes' body was given to his own mares to eat.
	www.sd84.k12.id.us /hw/barbara.tibbs/Heracles.htm (501 words)

	Amazon.com: "Diomedes of Argos": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A loudmouth and a braggart-albeit a handsome one-he is eager for blood; yet when he is wounded by Diomedes of Argos he flees to Mount Olympus bellowing in pain.
		I located the senior leaders among them-Achilles, Menelaus, Diomedes of Argos, Odysseus of Ithaca, Idomeneus of Crete, the Greater Ajax son of Telamon, and the Lesser Ajax son of Oileus.
		DIOMEDES (of Thrace) King of the Bistones and owner of four man-eating mares 73.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Diomedes-of-Argos (510 words)

	mares_of_glaucus
		After Diomedes, I could settle down for a lifetime of oats.* And at that, the four mares went trotting out to Glaucus' pavilion, as Diomedes' retainers followed in a line, uncertain what to do.
		After that race, King Glaucus would go on to treat his mares properly to the end of his days; Thought and Lightning continued to provide wins for their new owner's family, and were most happy eating the grain they were provided.
		Gross liberties were taken with the legends of the Mares of Glaucus, and the Mares of Diomedes, but I hope that the gists, and some of the particulars, of those legends have gotten through.
	www.poky.net /xena/argo/mares_of_glaucus.htm (6321 words)

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