Nauplius- Greek HeroHero"Founder of Nauplia"
Also known as: Ναύπλιος
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Description
Son of Poseidon and the Danaid Amymone, conceived after the god rescued her from a satyr's attack by the springs of Lerna. Nauplius grew into a legendary navigator and founded the harbor city that bore his name on the Argolic coast.
Mythology & Lore
Son of the Spring
Amymone, one of the fifty daughters of Danaus, went looking for water during a drought in Argos. A satyr attacked her. She called out to Poseidon, who hurled his trident and drove the satyr off. Where the trident struck the ground, springs burst forth at Lerna. Poseidon lay with Amymone there, and she bore him Nauplius. Apollodorus tells this in the Bibliotheca.
Nauplius became a navigator and founded the city of Nauplia on the Argolic coast. Pausanias records the city and its harbor. Later sources brought Nauplius into the story of Auge: Apollodorus says that when King Aleus of Tegea discovered his daughter pregnant by Heracles, he gave her to Nauplius to drown or sell overseas. Nauplius spared her and sent her to Mysia instead.