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In
Greek mythology , Nausimedon (
Ancient Greek : Ναυσιμέδοντα) was a
Euboean prince as the son of King
Nauplius .
[1]
Family
Nausimedon's mother was either
Clymene (daughter of King
Catreus ),
[2]
Hesione ,
[3] or
Philyra .
[4] He was the brother of
Oeax and the famous
Palamedes .
Mythology
Nausimedon and his brother Oeax were killed by
Pylades after helping
Aegisthus in his fight with
Orestes .
[5]
Notes
^
Schmitz, Leonhard (1870).
"Nauplius 3" . In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 2. Boston:
Little, Brown and Company . p. 1144.
^
Apollodorus ,
2.1.5 ,
3.2.2 & Epitome
6.8 ;
Dictys Cretensis , Trojan War Chronicle 1.1 & 6.2
^
"Hesione" . oxfordreference.com .
Oxford University Press .
^ Hard,
p. 236 ; Gantz, p. 604; Apollodorus, 3.2.2 with
Cercops as the authority for Hesione while
Nostoi as the source for Philyra
^ Nausimedon and Oeax were referred only as Nauplius's sons in
Pausanias , Graeciae Descriptio 1.22.6
References
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Dictys Cretensis , from The Trojan War. The Chronicles of Dictys of Crete and
Dares the Phrygian translated by Richard McIlwaine Frazer, Jr. (1931-). Indiana University Press. 1966.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Gantz, Timothy , Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources , Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, Two volumes:
ISBN
978-0-8018-5360-9 (Vol. 1),
ISBN
978-0-8018-5362-3 (Vol. 2).
Hard, Robin, The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H.J. Rose's "Handbook of Greek Mythology" , Psychology Press, 2004,
ISBN
9780415186360 .
Google Books .
Pausanias , Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.
ISBN
0-674-99328-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols . Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .