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	Odysseus: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology (Greek mythology: The mythology of the ancient Greeks), known as Ulysses or Ulixes in Roman mythology (Roman mythology: The mythology of the ancient Romans).
		Odysseus was the son of Laertes (Laertes: (Greek mythology) the father of Odysseus) and Anticlea (Anticlea: in greek mythology, anticlea, or antiklia, was the daughter of autolycus and...
		One of the suitors' (Antinous (Antinous: antinous or antinoös (greek: αντινοος,...
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	Palamedes (Greek mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agamemnon sent Palamedes to Ithaca to retrieve Odysseus, who had promised to defend the marriage of Helen and Menelaus.
		Palamedes guessed what was happening and put Odysseus' son, Telemachus, in front of the plow.
		When Palamedes advised the Greeks to return home, Odysseus accused him of being a traitor and forged false evidence and found a fake witness to testify against him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palamedes_(Greek_mythology) (204 words)

	Palamedes, Greek Mythology Link.
		Palamedes, they say, noticing that Odysseus was performing a farce, took his son Telemachus from the cradle and put him in front of the plow, exhorting Odysseus to give up his pretence.
		It is told that Odysseus compelled a Trojan prisoner to write a letter of treasonable purport, which seemed to be sent by King Priam 1 of Troy to Palamedes, and that he dropped the letter in the camp to be found and at the same time buried gold in the quarters of Palamedes.
		For the next day, when Palamedes was brought before Agamemnon, he denied having betrayed the army, but he was not able to convince either the king or anyone else of his innocence, after soldiers went to his tent and dug up the gold that sly Odysseus had hidden.
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	Trojan War: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Palamedes (Palamedes: in greek mythology, palamedes was the son of nauplius and clymene....
		The death of Palamedes (Palamedes: in greek mythology, palamedes was the son of nauplius and clymene....
		Idomeneus (Idomeneus: in greek mythology, idomeneus was a cretan warrior, grandson of minos....
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	EURIPIDES - LoveToKnow Article on EURIPIDES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is odd that the fate of Actaeon should be ascribed, by legend, to two distinguished Greek writers, Euripides and Lucian; though in the former case at least the fate has not such appropriateness as the Byzantine biographer discovers in the latter, on the ground that its victim had waxed rabid against the truth.
		In the case of the Greeks, these types had not merely an artistic and a moral interest; they had, further, a religious interest, because the Greeks believed that the epic heroes, sprung from the gods, were their own ancestors.
		Greek tragedy arose when the choral worship of Dionysus, the god of physical rapture, had engrafted upon it a dialogue between actors who represented some persons of the legends consecrated by this faith.
	16.1911encyclopedia.org /E/EU/EURIPIDES.htm (6651 words)

	Palamedes: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Greek mythology (Greek mythology: The mythology of the ancient Greeks), Palamedes was the son of Nauplius (Nauplius: more facts about this subject) and Clymene (Clymene: in greek mythology, clymene or klymenê ("famous might") is the name of at least...
		He is said to have invented counting, currency, weights, measures, jokes, dice and a forerunner of chess (chess: A game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king) called pessoi, as well military ranks.
		Palamedes guessed what was happening and put Odysseus' son, Telemachus (Telemachus: 200pxthumbrighttelemachus and mentor...
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	Odysseus articles on Encyclopedia.com
		A leader of Greek forces during the Trojan War, Odysseus was noted (as in the Iliad) for his cunning strategy and his wise counsel.
		Penelope PENELOPE [Penelope], in Greek mythology, wife of Odysseus and the mother of Telemachus.
		Palamedes PALAMEDES [Palamedes], in Greek mythology, crafty Greek hero of the Trojan War.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Odysseus (315 words)

	Palamedes
		For the Greeks a swamp formed by the mouth of a river or in general any swamp formed by a sluggish river or by the confluence of two rivers, was considered an entrance to Tigris and Euphrates as an entrance to Hades.
		In Greek the term lerna is used as a synonym of thesauros; lerna probably means “hollow” and seems related to the German leer, “hollow, empty”, A swamp on which one can neither navigate nor walk, is particularly symbolic of the chaos, of the primeval water out of which the world was born or emerged.
		At the Heraion Hera was worshipped as Prosymna and as Euboia.
	www.metrum.org /measures/palamedes.htm (7092 words)

	Odysseus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Odysseus is a character in Greek mythology, known as Ulysses in Roman mythology.
		Odysseus was the king of Ithaca, husband of Penelope and father of Telemachus, favorite of Athena, and wiliest of the Greeks involved in the Trojan War.
		Palamedes was very intelligent and placed Telemachus, Odysseus' son, in front of the plow.
	www.termsdefined.net /od/odysseus.html (2213 words)

	Trojan War - Military History Wiki
		The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which only two, the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, survive intact.
		Although the Greeks were destined to win the war, Achilles begged his mother Thetis to intervene with Zeus and ensure that the Greeks did badly until Agamemnon apologized to Achilles.
		(Palamedes exposed Odysseus as a fake when he pretended to be insane.) When Palamedes advised the Greeks to return home, Odysseus accused him of being a traitor and forged false evidence and found a fake witness to testify against him.
	www.militaryhistorywiki.org /wiki/Trojan_War (3186 words)

	Greek Mythology and the Trojan War
		The study of the Trojan War is inextricably interwoven with Greek mythology.
		The deities are a representation of the qualities most aimed for by the Greeks; a goal that every youth strove to attain, and characteristics admired by all in those who had them.
		The Greek people realized that character was destiny, and that one’s achievements could often stem from the same root as one’s crimes.
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	ipedia.com: Iliad Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Palamedes outwitted him by putting his infant son Telemachus in front of the plough, at which he turned it aside and admitted he was sane.
		The first word of the Greek poem is "Μηνιν" ("meinin", meaning "wrath"); the main subject of the poem is the wrath of Achilles; a literal translation of the first line would read "Wrath, sing goddess, of Peleus' son Achilles" or more intelligibly "Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles".
		Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited because the war could not, it was prophecied, be won without his bow.
	www.ipedia.com /iliad.html (1650 words)

	Odysseus, Ulysses, Greece, Greek mythology
		Palamedes then put the baby Telemachus in front of the plough which made Odysseus stop, revealing his sanity.
		After this, Odysseus dearly hated Palamedes, and according to one story he got his revenge through forging a letter from the Tojan king to Palamedes and burying gold under his tent.
		When the letter and the gold was discovered Palamedes was accused of treason and sentenced to death.
	www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/odysseus.htm (2099 words)

	Odysseus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Greek mythology, Elpenor was a good friend of Odysseus.Elpenor was not especially notable for his intelligence or strength, but he survived the Trojan War, and appears in the Odyssey.
		In Greek mythology, Laërtês was the son of Arcesius and father of Odysseus with Anticlea.
		In Greek mythology, Mentor (sometimes Mentês) was the son of Alcumus and, in his old age, a friend of Odysseus.
	www.infectionsviral.info /info/Odysseus (1448 words)

	Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Background of the Trojan War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Palamedes outwitted him by putting his infant son in front of the plough, and Odysseus turned aside, unwilling to kill his son, and so revealed his sanity and joined the war.
		According to some versions, he did so, but others claim that he sacrificed a deer in her place, or nothing, and that Iphigenia was taken by Artemis to the Crimea to prepare others for sacrifice to her.
		The Greek forces are described in detail in the Catalogue of Ships in the second book of the Iliad.
	www.greekhistoryandmythology.com /The_Wars_of_Greece/The_Trojan_War/Background_of_the_Trojan_War/2 (434 words)

	Greek Mythology: FAMILY OF DIONYSOS
		PHANOS An Argonaut from the island of Thasos (in the Greek Aegean).
		STAPHYLOS A King of the island of Thasos (in the Greek Aegean) and one of the Argonauts.
		THOAS A King of the island of Lemnos (in the Greek Aegean).
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/DionysosFamily.html (2682 words)

	Greek Mythology: WRATH OF ARTEMIS 2
		ADONIS A Prince and hunter of the island of Kypros (in the Eastern Meditteranean) who offended tArtemis (perhaps by boasts of superior hunting prowess) and was slain by the goddess on the tusks of a wild boar.
		ORION A Gigante of Delos or Krete (Island in the Greek Aegean) who was slain by Artemis because he boasted to be superior to the goddess in hunting.
		The story is that when, in obedience to the soothsaying of Kalkhas, the Greeks were about to sacrifice Iphigeneia on the altar, the goddess substituted a deer to be the victim instead of her.
	www.theoi.com /Olympios/ArtemisWrath2.html (2823 words)

	Apollodorus Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		By the advice of Calchas, Ulysses captures Helenus on Mount Ida, and Helenus prophesies to the Greeks concerning the fall of Troy, 9-10.
		The Greeks leave Sinon behind and depart to Tenedos, 14-15.
		The leaders descend from the Horse and open the gates to the Greeks, 20.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Texts/apollod.summ.html (2807 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The city of Lisbon, Portugal was believed by Greeks Greek settlers to be named after Odysseus.
		Ulysses 31 is a Japanese-French anime series (1981) which updates the Greek and Roman mythologies of Ulysses (or Odysseus) to the thirty-first century.
		A similar story exists in Indian mythology with Nala and Damayanti where Nala separates from Damayanti and reunites with her.The story of stringing a bow is similar to the description in Ramayana of Rama stringnig the bow to win Sita's in marriage.
	www.mauspfeil.net /Odysseus.html (3675 words)

	Palamedes
		He invented counting, currency, weights, measures, dice and a forerunner of chess called pessoi, as well military ranks.
		When Palamedes advised the Trojans to return home, Odysseus accused him of being a traitor and forged false evidence and found a fake witness to testify against him.
		The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pa/Palamedes.html (165 words)

	Dictionary
		In Greek mythology, Agamemnon, a son of ATREUS, was the commander in chief of the Greeks in the Trojan War.
		Palamedes' famous cleverness brought him into conflict with Odysseus, either because Odysseus was jealous of him or because Palamedes shrewdly foiled Odysseus' scheme to avoid serving in the Trojan War.
		In Greek mythology, Hector, the eldest son of Hecuba and Priam and the husband of Andromache, led the Trojan forces in the Trojan War.
	cat.xula.edu /apology/dictiona.htm (15693 words)

	Sinon, Greek Mythology Link.
		He began his speech by recalling the fate of Palamedes, whom the Achaeans had put to death as traitor, for being, Sinon said, against the war.
		And himself, he added, being a poor man, had served the same Palamedes as a squire, enjoying distinction for as long as his master's authority was unshaken.
		But when, through Odysseus' intrigues, Palamedes died, he himself was ruined, and in his bitterness he promised to take revenge.
	www.forumancientcoins.com /cparada/GML/Sinon.html (1321 words)

	History and Myth, ithaca greece, odysseas, homer, ulysses
		According to it's infamous mythology, the island was named after either Ithacus, son of the sea-god 'Poseidon' or Ithacis, the son of a Kephalonia king who settled there.
		Palamedes placed Odysseus' infant son in front of the plow, and Odysseus revealed his sanity when he turned aside to avoid injuring the child.
		However reluctant he may have been to join the expedition, Odysseus fought heroically in the Trojan War, refusing to leave the field when the Greek troops were being routed by the Trojans, and leading a daring nocturnal raid in company with Diomedes.
	www.ithacagreece.com /History%20and%20Myth/history.html (3210 words)

	Craftsmen Figures of Greek Mythology
		In the Iliad, Homer describes the workshop of Hephaestus thus: "Silver-footed Thetis arrived in the dwelling of Hephaestus, the imperishable and starry dwelling, radiant among all in the eyes of the immortals, all in bronze and constructed by the bandy-legged one himself" (Il 18.369-71).
		Besides the two great technical divinities of its pantheon, Greek mythology knew a series of heroes remarkable for their dexterity, like Odysseus, and sometimes endowed with the title of "first inventor," such as Epeus, Palamedes, Daedalus, etc.
		When tradition makes Daedalus the author of decisive progress in Greek plastic arts, and not their inventor, he is given credit for "having opened the eyes of statues." In the one case he creates an image to be seen; in the other, he gives this image sight.
	www.granta.demon.co.uk /arsm/jg/crafters.html (5529 words)

	AllRefer.com - Palamedes (Folklore And Mythology) - Encyclopedia
		Palamedes[palumE´dEz] Pronunciation Key, in Greek mythology, crafty Greek hero of the Trojan War.
		Because he had exposed Odysseus when he tried to evade going to war, Odysseus falsely accused him of treachery, produced erroneous evidence, and had him executed.
		Palamedes was credited with many inventions, including numbers, measures, and the alphabet.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Palamede.html (168 words)

	CliffsNotes::Mythology:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Odysseus still bore a grudge against Palamedes, the man who had ruthlessly shown his madness to be a hoax.
		Palamedes was stoned to death as a result.
		Since the Greek victories up to that point had been due to Achilles' prowess, this was a calamity for the Greeks.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-83,pageNum-74.html (929 words)

	Bulfinch Mythology Chapter 27
		Palamedes, to try him, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough, whereupon the father turned the plough aside, showing plainly that he was no madman, and after that could no longer refuse to fulfil his promise.
		The Greeks, though unsuccessful against Troy, had taken the neighbouring and allied cities, and in the division of the spoil a female captive, by name Chryseis, daughter of Chryses, priest of Apollo, had fallen to the share of Agamemnon.
		The Greeks had constructed a rampart around their ships, and now instead of besieging Troy they were in a manner besieged themselves, within their rampart.
	www.greekmythology.com /Books/Bulfinch/B_Chapter_27/b_chapter_27.html (5523 words)

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