Who was the king of Argos who fought in the Trojan War?

Diomedes was the king of Argos who fought in the Trojan War.

In Homer’s Iliad, Diomedes leads the Argive contingent of the Achaean army and brings 80 ships to Troy. He is the son of Tydeus, a famous warrior from the earlier expedition against Thebes, and Deipyle. Diomedes inherited his father’s reputation for courage and became one of the Greeks’ most formidable fighters.

Diomedes is sometimes confused with Agamemnon, who commands the entire Greek expedition, or Menelaus, whose wife Helen’s abduction helps trigger the war. Nestor is another major Greek king, but he rules Pylos, not Argos. In the Iliad, Diomedes even wounds the gods Aphrodite and Ares with Athena’s help.

Later Greek and Roman traditions expand his story after Troy, crediting him with founding settlements in southern Italy. Homer’s Diomedes, however, is principally remembered as Argos’s king and one of the Achaeans’ greatest warriors.