#and then Diomedes is like “okay 😐….bye’’
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After the sack of Troy Diomedes was cast up on the Libyan coast where Lycus was king, whose custom it was to sacrifice strangers to his father Ares. But Callirrhoe, the king's daughter, fell in love with Diomedes and betrayed her father : loosing Diomedes from his bonds, she saved him. But he, without regard for his benefactor, sailed away, and she ended her life with a halter. So Juba in the third book of his Libyan History.
Pseudo Plutarch, Parallela Minora 23
#greek mythology#tagamemnon#mythology#Diomedes#diomedes of argos#rather short little anecdote with Diomedes#the princess is like “hey I saved you ☺️’’#and then Diomedes is like “okay 😐….bye’’
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