Iliad

The hero and king of Argos Diomedes, son of Tydeus, appears in the Iliad, many Greek myths, and is a major character in Janet Morris' Heroes in Hell... series. In the Heroes in Hell fictional universe, Diomedes is among the heroes that refight the Trojan War on the beach at Troy and go on to further adventures. In Hell, Diomedes is true to his Homeric nature and never commits the sin of pride. In Greek mythology, Diomedes was also one of the Epigoni, and the youngest king of Argos. In the Heroes in Hell universe, Diomedes is consistently true to his aristeia, his valor and heroic excellence, and helps the Israelites, among others, on various quests. The theft of Herakles' man-eating horses and his warrior life brought Diomedes to the underworld, and there he travels easily from Tartaros to Erebos and even into the hells of modern man.
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Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent... meaning. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. The earliest poems evolved from folk songs, such as the Chinese Shijing, or from the need to retell oral epics, such as the Sanskrit Vedas, Zoroastrian Gathas, and the Homeric epics, the Odyssey and the Iliad. Ancient attempts to define poetry, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song, and comedy. Later attempts concentrated on features such as repetition, verse form and rhyme, and emphasized the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from more objectively informative, prosaic forms of writing. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more generally labelled as a fundamental creative act using language. Poetry primarily is governed by idiosyncratic forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses.
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