 This cult was not widespread; cults like those of Herakles and Theseus had a much more prominent function in the Greek world due to the benefits which they granted their followers and the popular mythological traditions of these figures.Strabo lists four different traditions about the hero's life in Italy.For one, he claims that at the city of Urium, Diomedes was making a canal to the sea when he was summoned home to Argos.