Palamedes (mythology)

Palamedes guessed what was happening and put Odysseus' son, Telemachus, in front of the plow.

[1] By Hyginus's account, Odysseus never forgave Palamedes for ruining his attempt to stay out of the Trojan War.

When Palamedes advised the Greeks to return home, Odysseus hid gold in his tent and wrote a fake letter purportedly from Priam.

[14]The major Dutch playwright Joost van den Vondel wrote in 1625 the play Palamedes, based on the Greek myth.

The play had a clear topical political connotation: the unjust killing of Palamedes stands for the execution of the statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt six years earlier, which Vondel, like others in the Dutch Republic, considered a judicial murder.

The play's harsh and tyrannical Agamemnon was clearly intended to portray Prince Maurits of Nassau.