Palamedes · Atlas

in the texts

Tusculan DisputationsHellenistic · Latin

Greek hero said to have been condemned by an unjust judgement.

With what delight should I be affected when I met Palamedes, Ajax, and others circumvented by an unjust judgement!

OrationsImperial · Greek

Mythical Greek hero credited with inventing the alphabet, unjustly killed by the Achaeans he taught.

And the letters that Palamedes discovered availed him nothing towards not being stoned to death unjustly by the Achaeans whom he had taught;

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Iphigenia in AulisClassical · Greek

Greek captain, described as descended from the son of Poseidon, seen amusing himself at checkers.

and I saw Protesilaus and Palamedes, sprung from the son of Poseidon, sitting there amusing themselves with intricate figures at checkers;

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OrestesClassical · Greek

Greek hero whose death at Troy is blamed on Agamemnon's family, prompting his brother Oeax's hostility toward Orestes.

he is avenging on you the blood of Palamedes.

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ApologyClassical · Greek

Mythic hero said to have died through an unjust judgement, invoked as a parallel to Socrates' own fate

for I personally should find the life there wonderful, when I met Palamedes or Ajax, the son of Telamon, or any other men of old who lost their lives through an unjust judgement, and compared my experience with theirs.

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PhaedrusClassical · Greek

A Homeric-era hero traditionally credited with inventions, named as a supposed rhetorical author unknown to Phaedrus.

Then you have heard only of the treatises on rhetoric by Nestor and Odysseus, which they wrote when they had nothing to do at Troy, and you have not heard of that by Palamedes?

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RepublicClassical · Greek

Mythic hero credited with inventing number, shown in a play exposing Agamemnon's ignorance of arithmetic

“Certainly, then,” said I, “Palamedes in the play is always making Agamemnon appear a most ridiculous general.

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ChrestomathyLate Antiquity · Greek

Greek hero who devises the test exposing Odysseus and later dies.

Then comes the death of Palamedes, and the plan of Zeus to relieve the Trojans by withdrawing Achilles from the Greek alliance;

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They detect Odysseus, who had feigned madness because he did not wish to join the expedition, when, at the suggestion of Palamedes, they snatched up his son Telemachus to punish him.

chrestomathy ¶

ApologyClassical · Greek

A heroic figure invoked as a precedent for noble remembrance after unjust death.

for even yet he affords us far more noble themes for song than does Odysseus, the man who unjustly put him to death.

apology ¶

MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

Mythic Greek hero cited as a wise man destroyed through envy.

And have you not heard the story of Palamedes?

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