Nausimedon
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] Philyra .[ 4] 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 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
^ 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 .
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