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The most famous Nauplius, was the father of Palamedes, called Nauplius the Wrecker, because he caused the Greek fleet, sailing home from the Trojan War, to shipwreck, in revenge for the unjust killing of Palamedes. [3] This Nauplius was also involved in the stories of Aerope, the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and Auge, the mother of Telephus.
In Greek mythology, the name Naubolus [pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ναύβολος) may refer to: Naubolus of Phocis, son of Ornytus (or of Hippasus [1]), and King of Phocis. [2] By Perineike, daughter of Hippomachus, he became the father of the Argonaut Iphitos, [3] and also of Antiphateia, who married Crisus. [4]
Nauplius (mythology), in Greek mythology, the son of Poseidon and Amymone, the father of Palamedes, and also the name of an Argonaut; Nauplia, a harbor town in Greece;
Palamedes (Ancient Greek: Παλαμήδης) was a Euboean prince, son of King Nauplius in Greek mythology. [1] He joined the rest of the Greeks in the expedition against Troy. [1] He was associated with the invention of dice, numbers, and letters.
The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths:
Philyra or Phillyra (/ ˈ f ɪ l ə r ə /: Ancient Greek: Φιλύρα means "linden-tree") is the name of three distinct characters in Greek mythology. Philyra, an Oceanid and mother of Chiron by Cronus. [1] Philyra, one of the names given to the wife of Nauplius, who was the father of Palamedes, Oiax and Nausimedon.
In some myths, Clymene was one of the nymphs in the train of Cyrene. [10] Clymene, another Oceanid, was given as the wife to King Merops of Aethiopia and was, by Helios, the mother of Phaethon and the Heliades. [11] Others include: Clymene, the name of one or two Nereid(s), [12] 50 sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the ...
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.