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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.
Aerope's father was Catreus, son of Minos, and king of Crete.Catreus had two other daughters, Clymene and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes. [4]In most accounts, Aerope was the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus, fathered by Atreus.
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.
According to varying accounts, Pleisthenes' wife was Aerope, who he had received from the mariner hero Nauplius. Aerope's father Catreus, either because, he found her in bed with a slave, or because of an oracle which said that one of his children would kill him, gave Aerope to Nauplius, to be either drowned, or sold as a slave.
The story of Catreus shares similarities with stories told about Aleus, king of Tegea.In these stories, [10] Aleus received an oracle that his grandson would kill Aleus' sons, so Aleus took measures to keep his daughter Auge a virgin, nevertheless Auge became pregnant (by Heracles) and Aleus (as did Catreus) gives his daughter to Nauplius, to be drowned but instead Nauplius sold her to the ...