Aegiale (wife of Diomedes)

Aigiale (Greek Αἰγιάλη ) or Aigialeia ( Αἰγιάλεια ) In Greek mythology, the wife of Diomedes, king of Argos.

She is the daughter of Adrastus or his son Aigialeus. While Diomedes fought in the Trojan War, Aigiale waited eagerly for his first return. As the goddess Aphrodite was wounded by Diomedes at Troy, she was angry with him and blinded his wife Aigiale, so she was unfaithful to him with several men. After returning from Troy Aigiale presented him with her last lover Kometes back, so that Diomedes had to flee only to the altar of Hera and later to Hesperia. There he realized that Aphrodite had taken revenge on him.

After Dictys cretensis Oiax has the Aigiale and Clytemnestra embittered when he told them her husband would bring women from Troy and these prefer their wives. In Tzetzes is not Oiax, but whose father Palamedes bearer of this message.