Nauplius (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Nauplius (Greek: Ναύπλιος) was the name of two characters, one descended from the other. The name may originally have been applied to one character, the founder of the city of Nauplia (modern Nafplion) in Argolis. Ancient mythographers realized that the birth of Nauplius I as a grandson of Danaus was incompatible with the stories connected to Nauplius as it relates to Palamedes and the Trojan War, which occurred many generations after Danaus ruled in Argolis. So a genealogy was created to link the two characters named Nauplius: Nauplius I - Proetus - Lernus - Naubolus - Clytoneus - Nauplius II. (Note that Proetus here is apparently not the same as Proetus, son of Abas). The author of the Bibliotheca still holds that there was only one Nauplius, the son of Poseidon, suggesting that he had a fantastically long life span and explicitly identifying him with the father of Palamedes. Hyginus too equates the Argonaut Nauplius with the son of Poseidon and Amymone.

This Nauplius was the son of the god Poseidon by Amymone, daughter of Danaus. This Nauplius reputedly founded Nauplia, of which the inhabitants Pausanias believed were descendants of the Egyptians who had once arrived with Danaus to Argolis. He was renowned as an expert seafarer, and possibly the inventor of seafaring as a practice; a harbor equipped by him to function as a port was said to have been named in his honor. According to Pherecydes, he was father of Damastor, through him grandfather of Peristhenes and great-grandfather of Dictys and Polydectes.

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