) In the Post-Homeric traditions, we read that Palamedes, when endeavouring to persuade Odysseus to join the Greeks against Troy, and the latter feigned idiocy, placed the infant Telemachus before the plough with which Odysseus was ploughing ( Hygin.

From Tenedos, Agamemnon sent an embassy to Priam, composed of Menelaus, Odysseus, and Palamedes, asking for Helen's return.

The letter and gold were " discovered ", and Agamemnon had Palamedes stoned to death for treason.

Agamemnon sent Palamedes to Ithaca to retrieve Odysseus, who had promised to defend the marriage of Helen and Menelaus.

Palamedes, Creugas and Damoxenus, the Combat of Theseus and the Centaur, and Hercules and Lichas may close the class of heroic compositions, although the catalogue might be swelled by the enumeration of various others, such as Hector and Ajax, King Ferdinand of Naples, and others.

In the Palamedes and other works, the castle is eventually destroyed by King Mark of Cornwall after the loss of Arthur at the Battle of Camlann.

When scorned by Palamedes, Odysseus challenged him to do better.

Some of the others include Troades by Euripides, Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Iphigenia and Polyxena by Samuel Coster, Palamedes by Joost van den Vondel and Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz.

Once in Troy, Odysseus murdered Palamedes ( the commander who outwitted Odysseus in Ithaca, forcing him to stand by his oath and join the alliance ), drowning him while he was fishing.

In 1625 he published what seemed an innocent study from the antique, his tragedy of Palamedes, or Murdered Innocence, but which was a thinly veiled tribute to Johan van Oldebarnevelt, the Republic's Grand Pensionary, who had been executed in 1618 by order of stadtholder Maurice of Nassau.

It is the subject of quests undertaken by famous knights such as King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes, and Sir Percival.

Then follow the death of Palamedes, the plan of Zeus to relieve the Trojans by detaching Achilles from the Hellenic confederacy, and a catalogue

Palamedes was stoned to death by Odysseus and Diomedes.

According to the Post-Vulgate, Sir Gawain, once a friend to Sir Palamedes, had to kill Palamedes after the Grail Quest, since, Palamedes killed King Mark, who was said had killed Tristan ; King Mark was provoked by the sinister Mordred to kill Tristan with Palamedes's spear.

Palamedes is a character in the book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, by Michael Scott.

Hyginus recounts of a letter presumably sent to Palamedes from Priam but in fact written by Odysseus.

Agamemnon, Creon, and Medea perform their tragic actions before the eyes of the polis.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.

His wife Clytemnestra ( Helen's sister ) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.

According to Aeschylus, Orestes saw Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead ; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

The genealogy offered in the earliest literary reference, Euripides ' Iphigenia in Tauris, would place him two generations before the Trojan War, making him the great-grandfather of the Atreides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

However, the Agamemnon ran aground before entering the channel, and took no part in the battle.

The earliest known reference to the idea that swans sing one beautiful song before dying first appears in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon from 458 BC.

Clytemnestra believes the murder was justified, since Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia before the war, as commanded by the gods.

In a desperate attempt to destroy the last defense platform before it could fire on North America's eastern seaboard, Sheridan ordered the Agamemnon to ram it.

The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy.

Years before the time period covered by the play, the young princess Iphigeneia narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon.

Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia in order to appease the goddess Artemis and allow the Greek army to set sail for Troy.

IV. 9 Ne forte credas, an ode to Lollius about the power of poetry that contains the famous line, " Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona ," " Brave men lived before Agamemnon.

" It was typical of Berry's luck that, having long and restlessly awaited a new ship, he should have been given the Agamemnon, before having the infinite happiness of joining Nelson on the eve of his greatest battle.

Sophocles lets us hear the speech Ajax gives immediately before his suicide ( which, unlike in most Greek tragedies, where action and death are reported, is called for to take place onstage ), in which he calls for vengeance against the sons of Atreus ( Menelaus and Agamemnon ) and the whole Greek army.

In 1626 his father died, and Benedetto began schooling in human sciences taught by the Jesuits at his local college, before transferring to Genoa.

In Brazil, he briefly captured the Portuguese settlement of Salvador, personally leading the assault on the sea fortress of that town. In August with a small and undermanned fleet he sailed for the African west coast and attacked a Portuguese fleet in a strongly defended bay of Luanda but failed to capture any ships. He then crossed the Atlantic ocean again to try and capture merchant ships at the city of Vitória, but was defeated by a resistance organized by the local civilians, with assistance by a Portuguese garrison. After finding Salvador recaptured by a large Spanish-Portuguese fleet Heyn returned home. The Dutch West India Company were pleased with Heyn's leadership qualities and in 1626 placed him in command of a new squadron. In subsequent raids in 1627 at Salvador, he attacked and captured over thirty richly laden Portuguese merchant ships before returning to the United Provinces.

He was then educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, before going on to Gonville and Caius College, at Cambridge, where he graduated in 1626.

On reaching the age of 21 in 1626, he was created a Knight of the Bath, as had been his father before him.

As early as 1626 the Dutchman Willem Usselincx received royal privileges from the Swedish king for a trading company, but wars and hard times had however stopped the company before it launched any ships to the Far East.

Aston's return to England in late 1626, along with all the Catholic settlers, failed to deter Baltimore, who finally sailed for Newfoundland in 1627, arriving on July 23 and staying only two months before returning to England.

* Secondly after 1616 and before 1626, as evidenced by a date stone on Eggesford Barton bearing the inscription: " E. C. M.

It is unknown whether the city had its flag in the past since no records are preserved from before the great fire of 1626.

From 1626 to 1628, he taught mathematics at the Jesuit college of Leuven, before being appointed to the Imperial College in Madrid.

It was designed and introduced in 1620 by English clergyman and mathematician Edmund Gunter ( 1581 – 1626 ) long before the development of the theodolite and other more sophisticated equipment, enabling plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted, for legal and commercial purposes.

* The Doctor mentions that the year is 1626, and tells his companions that Buckingham only has a couple of years to live before his assassination by John Felton.

Born October 21, 1626 in Wicres, Artois France, to Chretien DuBois, Louis fled persecution in France to Mannheim, Germany before 1650.

He was appointed to the embassy which accompanied Henrietta Maria from Paris to England and went on to hold the spurs at Charles ' coronation in 1626, before succeeding his older brother as Lord Chamberlain.

* Deborah was born in Plymouth about 1626 and died probably before 1674.

His sentence was changed to permanent banishment and de Viau spent the remaining months of his life in Chantilly under the protection of the Duke of Montmorency before dying in Paris in 1626.

* Thomas Butler, 2nd Baron Cahir ( before 1568 – 1626 / 7 )