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Happychickenvermin

I'm not talking about the Arthurian knight, but the Prince, son of Nauplius. He was a suitor of Helen and invented the consonants of the Greek alphabet (apparently), coinage, jokes, measures and dice. He was one of those who swore to support Menelaus if someone "abducted" Helen, so was Odysseus, who originally came to wed Helen, but instead wed Penelope (Helen's cousin). Odysseus knew if he went away he wouldn't return for 20 years, so he pretended to be insane, by ploughing his fields with salt.

Palamedes doubted his insanity and placed Odysseus' infant son Telemachus before the plough. Odysseus manouvered aroung the baby, thus proving he was still sane (enough not to kill his son). Odysseus took revenge at Troy by hiding gold in Palamedes' tent, and forging a letter from Priam. Palamedes was tried for treason and was stoned to death (though Nestor saw through the unfair trial). BTW, he might not be in the Illiad but he is in Hyginus' Fabulae Apolodrus' Epitome, Ovid's Metamorphoses and Virgil's Aeneid.

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  HiddenVale

  Oohhh; now you probably mean in that Greek Mythology he invented the stuff you mentioned. But what book is Palamedes mentioned in? And you should probably make a page for him since you're knowledgeable.

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  05:20, March 2, 2013

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  Happychickenvermin

  Seeing as you're reading the Iliad, maybe you should work on its characters, like making pages or adding categories. Hector doesn't have a page, which is quite surprising.

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  22:56, March 2, 2013

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  Aha yes, that's what I've started, which I told you about. I've added the category Deaths in the Trojan War, which is a sub-catg. of Mythological characters. And I have created Menelaus' page, but today I don't have a lot of time on my hands.

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Thanks so much

Smallvilleantonio

hey thanks for the edits! we are glad to have you around, and looking forward for more edits teammate! cheers!

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08:10, October 20, 2012

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  Smallvilleantonio

  the most developed mythologies we have here are the greek and norse, all the others like the mesopotamian, japanese, egyptian, etc, need a lot of support, I am personally taking care mostly of the greek and norse mythos.

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  Ah good, & thanks. I'll help majorly out with Meso. and Egyptian, as well as certain Greek Mythological things like characters in the Iliad and the Odyssey which I'm reading actually right now.

  Also you should probably know that Roman mythology is no different from Greek - the Romans simply changed names of most of the dieties and excluded eveything else. Keeping the Roman stuff differentiated is up to you, of course.

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  21:50, October 20, 2012

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  Smallvilleantonio

  we differentiate it in the wiki because of technicalities, for example, although Hermes and Mercury are one and the same, and such is Ares is the same deity in greek and roman myth, roman children were tought to fear mercury and other roman deities, while greeks worshipped their deities. while romans associated their deities to the planets, with the greeks that was not the case, at least not entirely.

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  03:23, October 21, 2012

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  ISodium

  Smallvilleantonio is correct as not all cultures that adopted the same mythology keep everything 100% exact.

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  04:25, October 21, 2012

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Welcome to Mythology Wiki!

Smallvilleantonio

Γεια (Hi), welcome to Mythology Wiki! Thanks for your contribution to the User:HiddenVale page, it's much appreciated.

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Mythology Wiki is an online encyclopedia that contains, as you've probably figured, articles on myths, mythological characters and places, terms, and et cetera. We contain many different cultures' mythology from Greek to Norse and everything else. If you want to learn more about the wiki's history then visit the about page. If you need any help then explore the help pages here or at Wikia Help. View our wiki policy here.

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Welcome to Mythology Wiki!

Smallvilleantonio

Γεια (Hi), welcome to Mythology Wiki! Thanks for your contribution to the Message Wall:Smallvilleantonio page, it's much appreciated.

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