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From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was the [[king]] of [[Thrace]] who had a pair of "man-eating mares". It was the seventh labor of [[Heracles]] to tame these mares. According to some authors, Heracles fed Diomedes to the mares. Source: [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]], authority on Greek mythology and [[Greek tragedy]], including the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' for [[The Teaching Company]].
From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was the [[king]] of [[Thrace]] who had a pair of "man-eating mares". It was the seventh labor of [[Heracles]] to tame these mares. According to some authors, Heracles fed Diomedes to the mares.

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Diomedes [r]: From Greek mythology, he was the king of Thrace who had a pair of "man-eating mares". It was the seventh labor of Heracles to tame these mares. According to some authors, Heracles fed Diomedes to the mares.