Diomedes was the mean king of thrace he was a cruel giant who ruled the land ruthlessly
Diomedes was the son of Mars the God of War and he was considered a great warrior he owned four
ferocious mares who were so wild that they had to be secured with an iron chain they were kept
in a bronze manger tied to a golden post these terrible creatures had fire coming out of their
nostrils and they sometimes ate humans too the evil king would feed the innocent newcomers to
the island to his horses stealing the mares of Diomedes was the eighth task of Hercules
King Diomedes had a huge army of Bostonian men who were a bunch of nasty barbarians they
always kept guard of the king's mares task 8 mares of Diomedes for accomplishing this
task Hercules took with him his young squire Abderus whom he cared for very much
they sailed with his volunteer across egon and after many days of travel they finally reached thrace
once they reach the island off they went in the middle of the night to steal the crazed
man-eating mares they snuck up on the horses but before he could release them bostonian
men saw them and attacked Diomedes woke up hearing the commotion he was not very happy
when he heard that Hercules was trying to steal his favorite mares Hercules asked Abderus to
take care of the mares while he went ahead and fought Diomedes the king was huge but Hercules
was stronger and smarter Hercules defeated the king easily and returned to Abderus but it was
too late when the mares got hungry they ate his favorite Squire when Hercules saw this he
was very sad and angry enraged Hercules fed Diomedes to his own mares once the mares
were done munching on their former master they reverted to being regular calm mares
when the Bostonian soldier saw what happened to their king they started running away Hercules
rode the calm mares back to Macedonia and presented them before Eurystheus
Eurystheus ordered the horses be taken to Olympus to be sacrificed to Zeus but Zeus
refused the sacrifice and instead sent lions wolves and bears to kill the wild
mares the mares indeed had such notorious reputation it is said that one of the mares
managed to survive and had powerful descendants Alexander of Macedonia or
Alexander the Great is believed to rode one of them as for Hercules he greatly grieved
over the loss of his friend and later founded a city in honor of Abderus naming it after him