Nauplius

First appears: Book XIV · Part 5

Life events

• Nauplius lured the Achaean ships onto the rocks with a false beacon, wrecking many ships and killing their crews.(Book XIV · Part 5)
  • “He, like a harbour-warder, lifted high A blazing torch, and so by guile he trapped The Achaean men, who deemed that they had won A sheltering haven: but sharp reefs and crags Gave awful welcome unto ships and men, Who, dashed to pieces on the cruel rocks In the black night, crowned ills with direr ills.”

Book XIV · Part 5

• parent: Poseidon “To his sea-god sire He prayed that all might perish, ships and men”
• child: the son of Nauplius “Wroth for that son whom they had done to death, He; when the storm rose and the Argives died,”

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Extracted from the original text of The Fall of Troy. Made with Rho MD.