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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.
9712 Nauplius / ˈ n ɔː p l i ə s / is a mid-sized Jupiter trojan from the Greek camp, approximately 33 kilometers (21 miles) in diameter.It was discovered during the second Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey at the Palomar Observatory in 1973 and later named after Nauplius the Wrecker, from Greek mythology. [1]
Les naufrageurs is a French-language opera in three acts composed by Dame Ethel Smyth to a libretto by Henry Brewster, telling of the plundering of ships by Cornish villagers.
Naubolus of Argos, who belonged to the lineage that linked the two figures of the name Nauplius: Nauplius I - Proetus - Lernus - Naubolus - Clytoneus (Clytius [6]) - Nauplius II (the Argonaut). [7] Naubolus, a Phaeacian, father of Euryalus. [8]
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.
It was situated upon a rocky peninsula, connected with the mainland by a narrow isthmus. It was a very ancient place, and is said to have derived its name from Nauplius, the son of Poseidon and Amymone, and the father of Palamedes, though it more probably owed its name, as Strabo has observed, to its harbour.
Philyra, one of the names given to the wife of Nauplius, who was the father of Palamedes, Oiax and Nausimedon. The mythographer Apollodorus reports that, in the Nostoi ( Returns ), an early epic from the Trojan cycle of poems about the Trojan War , Nauplius' wife was Philyra, and that according to Cercops his wife was Hesione , but that ...
Nauplius spared her, and she became the wife of Atreus or Pleisthenes (or both). By most accounts, she is the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus . While the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of his brother Thyestes , and gave Thyestes the golden lamb that allowed him to become king of Mycenae .