Brother of Palamedes who, to avenge the stoning at Troy, falsely told Clytemnestra that Cassandra was coming as Agamemnon's concubine — the lie that set her plotting with Aegisthus.1
Hyginus names Oiax brother of Palamedes in the chain of vengeance that wrecked the Greek returns. When Palamedes was stoned on Odysseus' forged charge of treachery, Nauplius sailed to demand satisfaction and failed; his sons' revenge took other shapes — and Oiax told Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and wife of Agamemnon, that Cassandra was being brought home as a concubine, though the tale was false, made to punish the wrong done to his brother.2
Clytemnestra, believing the slander, plotted with Aegisthus son of Thyestes to kill Agamemnon on his homecoming — one thread in the Returns that binds the wooden horse, the stoning of the Argive counsellor, and the murder at Mycenae. The nested episode on Cassandra at Mycenae tells how the false tale about the Trojan concubine sharpened the queen's wrath before the bath.3
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