The boy runs to the sea to see the terrible Hydra. The young man leads the army on his first victorious campaign. A man goes out to duel with the gods under the walls of impregnable Troy. The old man looks at the last dawn of his life... He was one of those who are called the best of the best - Diomedes, son of Tydeus, one of the greatest heroes of Greece, glorified in Homer's Iliad. Having gone into the gray Ocean, he did not want to return, but still returned to see a poster at the end of the 20th century: “There was no Trojan War.” “Diomedes, son of Tydeus” is a famous novel by Andrei Valentinov, one of the founders of the genre of cryptohistory.