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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.
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]
Instead, Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Pleisthenes. [11] Sophocles, in his play Ajax, may also refer to Aerope's father finding her in bed with a man and handing her over to Nauplius to be drowned. However, the potentially corrupt text may instead refer to Aerope's husband Atreus finding her in bed with Thyestes, and having her ...
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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 ...
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 ]
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.
The SS United States was poised to set sail at the end of last year on her final voyage from Philadelphia to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to become an artificial reef. But Coast Guard concerns ...