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| | Mares of Diomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Aquarius itself was said to represent the god who flooded the earth, the water it seems to pour, which sometimes includes the constellation of Eridanus as a river, was said to depict this by the Greeks. | | | They belonged to the giant Diomedes, King of Thrace, a son of Ares and Cyrene who lived on the shores of the Black Sea. | | | According to the Trojan War epics, King Diomedes, the hero of Argo, who fought against the god Ares during the war, stole horses from the stables of King Rhesus of Thrace. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mares_of_Diomedes
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| | Hercules and Diomedes |
| | Diomedes, the son of Ares the war god, was king of the Bistones in Thrace. | | | However, he was delayed in his plans when the king aroused his people to attack and return the mares. | | | Hercules routed the attackers, vanquished the evil king and fed him to the mares who then became quite tame. |
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http://www.sculpturegallery.com/sculpture/hercules_and_diomedes.html
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| | 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). | | | In the party was a young boy named Abderus, and Heracles was very fond of this youth, and made him his companion. | | | Heracles gave the youth a worthy burial, then founded the city of Abdera on the site next to his tomb. |
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http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mares_of_diomedes.html
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| | Diomedes |
| | Colombian soldier Diomedes Gutierrez Banquez stands guard by a mural on the side of a peasant's house near Valledupar. | | | Diomedes Robles, laborer, at 31, lived in Brockton.(Obituary) | | | How Diomedes and Glaukos, being about to fight, were known to each other, and parted in friendliness. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0815571.html
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| | Greek Mythology : Diomedes |
| | ...The eighth labour he enjoined on him was to bring the mares of Diomedes the Thracian to Mycenae.Now this Diomedes was a son of Ares and Cyrene, and he was king of the Bistones, a very warlike Thracian people, and he owned man-eating mares. | | | 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. | | | And he founded a city Abdera beside the grave of Abderus who had been done to death. |
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http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Gods/Diomedes.html
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| | #8 - Tame the Mares of Diomedes |
| | Hercules tamed them by capturing them and feeding them the flesh of their previous master, Diomedes. |
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http://web.olivet.edu/gradusers/jandrian/hercules/sld017.htm
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