Palamedes
Role: inventor of dice · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 20
Palamedes, the inventor of dice, made a votive offering of his dice to the temple of Fortune. In Book 10, Chapter 31, he was drowned by Diomede and Odysseus while fishing; the account also places him among Odysseus’s enemies.
Relationship record
Life events
- Diomede and Odysseus drowned Palamedes while he was fishing.(Book 10 · Chapter 31)
Book 2 · Chapter 20
- with Fortune (The temple immediately referred to is the temple of Fortune.) “since Palamedes the inventor of dice made a votive offering of his dice to this temple.”
Book 10 · Chapter 31
- enemies with Odysseus “Polygnotus seems to have purposely collected together the enemies of Odysseus.”
- with Diomede (Diomede drowned Palamedes.) “And I have read in the Cyprian Poems that Palamedes going a fishing was drowned by Diomede and Odysseus.”
- with Odysseus (Odysseus drowned Palamedes.) “And I have read in the Cyprian Poems that Palamedes going a fishing was drowned by Diomede and Odysseus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.