Deipyle was an Argive princess, a daughter of King Adrastus, whom her father gave in marriage to the exiled Aetolian Tydeus; by him she became the mother of the hero Diomedes.1
Deipyle belonged to the royal house of Argos. Apollodorus records that Adrastus had by Amphithea, the daughter of Pronax, three daughters — Argia, Deipyle, and Aegialia — together with two sons, Aegialeus and Cyanippus.2
Her marriage came of an exile's arrival. When Tydeus, driven from Calydon for kindred bloodshed, fled to Argos and came to Adrastus, the king received him and the wandering Polynices as bridegrooms — moved, Apollodorus says, by the boar and the lion borne upon their shields. Adrastus gave Deipyle to Tydeus and Argia to Polynices, and promised to restore both men to their native lands; the pledge drew him into the war of the Seven against Thebes, where Tydeus fell to a wound dealt by Melanippus.3
Deipyle's lasting place in myth is as the mother of Diomedes. Apollodorus states that Tydeus married her at Argos and begot Diomedes, and Hyginus names her in the catalogue of the Greek captains at Troy — Diomedes, son of Tydeus and Deipyla, daughter of Adrastus, sailing from Argos with thirty ships. Hyginus tells too how that son, after Troy fell, returned to Aetolia to avenge his grandfather and win back the kingdom that had been Tydeus's birthright.4
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