Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Nauplius.
The gallery
The Revenge of Nauplius (Vendetta di Nauplio)
Unknown (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence), 16th century
A fresco panel in the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence) stages Nauplius the Wrecker: after the Greeks stone his son Palamedes at Troy, the aged Argive lights false beacon fires on the Capherian rocks of Euboea, luring the returning fleet onto the reefs. Renaissance Florence keeps the nostoi revenge as a moral allegory of cunning turned lethal — Poseidon's son by Amymone as the father who answers injustice with shipwreck.
In play
Nauplios Pyrkaeus (Nauplius the Fire-Kindler)
Sophocles
Lost Sophoclean tragedy on Nauplius lighting the Capherian beacons — the wrecker as a stage subject beside the cycle plays titled Palamedes.
Palamedes
Nauplius' son — inventor framed by Odysseus — whose stoning sends the father to Cape Caphereus and the false lights of the Returns.
Cape Caphereus
The Euboean headland of the false fires — later called Xylophagos, 'Timber-Eater' — where Nauplius wrecks the Achaean homecoming.
Nauplius (mythology)
Son of Poseidon and Amymone, Argonaut and long-lived wrecker — not to be collapsed with every later Nauplius of the genealogies.