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PALAMEDES , in See also:Greek See also:legend, son of Nauplius See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Euboea, one of the heroes of the Trojan See also:War, belonging to the See also:post-Homeric See also:cycle of legends. During the See also:siege of See also:Troy, See also:Agamemnon, See also:Diomedes and See also:Odysseus (who had been detected by Palamedes in an See also:attempt to See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape going to Troy by shamming madness) caused a See also:letter containing See also:money and purporting to come from See also:Priam to be concealed in his See also:tent. They then accused Palamedes of treasonable See also:correspondence with the enemy, and he was ordered to be stoned to See also:death. His See also:father exacted a fearful vengeance from the Greeks on their way See also:home, by placing false See also:lights on the promontory of Caphareus. The See also:story of Palamedes was first handled in the Cypria of See also:Stasinus, and formed the subject of lost plays by See also:Aeschylus (Palamedes), See also:Sophocles (Nauplius), See also:Euripides (Palamedes), of which some fragments remain. See also:Sophists and rhetoricians, such as See also:Gorgias and See also:Alcidamas, amused themselves by See also:writing declamations in favour of or against him. Palamedes was regarded as the inventor of the See also:alphabet, lighthouses, weights and See also:measures, See also:dice, See also:backgammon and the See also:discus.
See Euripides, See also:Orestes, 432 and schol.; See also:Ovid, Metam. xiii. 56; Servius on See also:Virgil, Aeneid, ii. 82, and See also:Nettleship's See also:note in See also:Conington's edition; See also:Philostratus, Heroica, 11; Euripides, Frag. 581; for different versions of his death see Dictys Cretensis 1i. 15; See also:Pausanias ii. 20, 3; X. 31, 2; Dares Phrygius, 28; monograph by O. See also:Jahn (See also:Hamburg, 1836).
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