tall and slender, wise, magnanimous and charming was a Euboean prince, son of King Nauplius Palamedes, inventor of the dice and of several letters of the alphabet, outwitted Odysseus, making him join the expedition against Troy Odysseus never forgave Palamedes for ruining his attempt to stay out of the Trojan War. So he hid gold in Palamedes tent tent and wrote a fake letter purportedly from Priam