Palamedes

Role: hero · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Aeneid (as Palamedes)

Clymene became the wife of Nauplius, who became the father of Palamedes and Oeax. When Odysseus feigned madness to avoid the war, Palamedes exposed him; in fear for Telemachus, Odysseus confessed that his madness was pretended and went to the war. Palamedes had followed him and, snatching Telemachus from Penelope’s bosom, drawn his sword as if he would kill him.

Later, Odysseus falsely implicated Palamedes by planting a letter and gold. Agamemnon read the letter and “delivered up Palamedes to the allies to be stoned as a traitor”; another account names Agamemnon as Odysseus’s accomplice in Palamedes’s murder.

Relationship record

Life events

• Clymene married Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.(Apollodorus, Library 3.2)
  • With: Clymene Nauplius Oeax
  • “Clymene became the wife of Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.”
• Palamedes exposed Ulysses's feigned madness, compelling him to join the war.(Apollodorus, Epitome 3)
  • With: Odysseus
  • “And in his fear for the child Ulysses confessed that his madness was pretended, and he went to the war.”
• Ulysses falsely implicated Palamedes, who was stoned as a traitor.(Apollodorus, Epitome 3)
  • With: Odysseus Agamemnon
  • “Agamemnon read the letter, found the gold, and delivered up Palamedes to the allies to be stoned as a traitor.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• parent: Clymene “By her he had Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.”
• parent: Nauplius “By her he had Palamedes, Oeax, and Nausimedon.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.2

• parent: Nauplius “And Clymene became the wife of Nauplius, who became the father of Oeax and Palamedes.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 3

• enemies with Odysseus “Agamemnon read the letter, found the gold, and delivered up Palamedes to the allies to be stoned as a traitor”
• child: Nauplius “However, Palamedes, son of Nauplius, proved his madness to be fictitious”
• with Telemachus (threatened) “Palamedes followed him, and snatching Telemachus from Penelope's bosom, drew his sword as if he would kill him”

Apollodorus, Epitome 6

• parent: Clymene “Palamedes, the son of Nauplius and Clymene daughter of Catreus”
• with Odysseus (Odysseus plotted Palamedes's death.) “Palamedes ... had been stoned to death through the machinations of Ulysses”
• with Agamemnon (Agamemnon was an accomplice in the murder.) “King Agamemnon, who had been the accomplice of Ulysses in the murder of Palamedes”

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