Galaxy/The codex of Clymene

Daughter of Catreus, wife of Nauplius and mother of Palamedes and Oeax — not to be confused with the Oceanid Clymene or Clymene Minyas.1

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Apollodorus names her among the daughters Catreus gave in marriage: Aerope to Plisthenes, Clymene to Nauplius — and by Nauplius she bore Oeax and Palamedes. When Palamedes was stoned at Troy through Odysseus' machinations, his father Nauplius would avenge him on the returning host.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Clymene — art, artifacts and echoes.

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