In Greek mythology, Diores (Ancient Greek: Διωρῆς) was an Epeian leader in the Trojan War, son of Amarynceus. Homer gives him ten ships from Elis among the four Epeian captains; he was killed by the Thracian captain Peiros son of Imbrasus in the fighting by the ships.
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I.Catalogue captain
In the Iliad Catalogue of Ships, mighty Diores son of Amarynceus commands one fourth of the Epeian host — ten swift ships from Elis beside Buprasium and the neighbouring towns. Pausanias notes that Homer allots ten ships to Diores and ten to Polyxenus while Amphimachus and Thalpius share the other twenty, and that neither Amarynceus nor his son remained obscure men in Elis.
II.Death by the ships
In the battle by the ships, Peiros son of Imbrasus, leader of the Thracians from Aenus, cast a jagged stone that crushed Diores' ankle and sinews. As the Epeian gasped out his life, a comrade ran upon Peiros until the two captains — one of the Thracians, the other of the brazen-coated Epeians — lay stretched in the dust each by the other.
III.Homonyms
This atlas entry (diores-epeian) is the Epeian captain, son of Amarynceus. Distinct from Diores father of Automedon, from the Trojan Diores who races in Aeneas' Sicilian games and dies at Turnus' hand, and from Diores son of Aeolus who marries his sister Polymele in a late Odyssean notice.